Maine State Police
20 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
Phone: (207) 624-8930
Fax: (207) 624-8945
Contact: Richard McAlister
Web Site:http://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/

Our Reconstruction Program is Administered by the Maine State Police and consists of 19 Troopers and 28 County and Municipal Officers. Our office trains and certifies all officers in the program. We also review and approve all reports. We have annual certification standards and testing that must be passed in order to maintain a certification to participate in the program.

Field troopers are responsible for patrolling the State's highways and other important ways for the purpose of enforcing criminal and motor vehicle laws. The State Police also aids the Department of Transportation in the enforcement of its rules, orders, and permit regulations. In addition, troopers are vested with the same powers as sheriffs to serve criminal processes, to investigate and prosecute violators of any Maine law, and arrest without warrant and detain persons found violating or attempting to violate any other penal law of Maine until a legal warrant can be obtained.

Thus, the Maine State Police pursues the detection and prevention of crime, the arrest and prosecution of criminals, and the preservation of law and order throughout the state. The law is enforced by troopers in a fair and impartial manner.

Generally, the Maine State Police is involved in traffic investigation and direction, accident investigation, vehicle safety checks, court appearances, criminal investigations (including suspicious deaths, homicides, major crimes, drug trafficking, and child abuse), communications, beano and games of chance licensing and inspections, escort and relay operations, vehicle inspection station investigations, truck weighing, school bus inspections, inspection mechanic exams, public speaking, underwater recovery operations, speed limit enforcement, and as an aid to other law enforcement agencies.

Specifically, to facilitate the safe and expeditious movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, the state police must enforce traffic laws and develop driver awareness as to the causes of traffic accidents. Traffic accidents are investigated to protect the rights of the involved parties, to care for the injured, and to determine the causes of such accidents so that methods of prevention may be developed.

One demanding assignment of troopers is the monitoring of the State's truck traffic. Troopers are assigned to enforce Maine's truck laws over the more than 25,000 miles of Maine's roads.

Troopers assigned to the Traffic Division conduct motor vehicle inspection which includes examining mechanics and more than 1,800 garages for certification throughout the State each year. School buses are inspected in February and August of each year with more than 50 items inspected on each bus.

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