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Show Trooper Haycock Voted UHP Officer of The Year Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Richard Haycock was honored as Region II "Officer of the Year" by his peers and law enforcement officials offi-cials from throughout Utah in ceremonies cer-emonies at Utah's First Statewide Drug Enforcement Conference sponsored by the Utah Narcotic Officer's Of-ficer's Association. Trooper Haycock has been instrumental in-strumental in over 150 narcotic arrests ar-rests this past year which have led to the seizure of over 10 vehicles, almost $200,000 in cash and the continuation of investigations throughout Utah and neighboring states. Primarily patrolling 1-70 in the Grand County area, Haycock recently was involved in the stop of a vehicle, apprehending a man wanted for murder in California. The bomb squad was called from the Salt Lake City area to deal with the threat of a bomb in the vehicle. During his career in law enforcement, en-forcement, Trooper Haycock has been directly responsible for the arrests ar-rests of drug rings in Denver, Wisconsin Wis-consin and Illinois and recovered over one million dollars in seizures. He has completed 500 narcotic investigations in-vestigations with 486 convictions. In addition, Trooper Haycock has received the Utah Highway Patrol Pa-trol Section 9 Award, twice, and the District Award four times for Outstanding Out-standing Police Service, a recipient of the Utah Department of Public Safety Distinguished Medal for authoring au-thoring of Criminal Interdiction and In-state Training. He is also a Certified Cer-tified Instructor for the Drug En-See En-See Trooper Haycock Page 3A Trooper Haycock From Page 1 forcement Administration and was Co-director of the Utah Crime Council. The Utah Narcotic Officer's Association As-sociation is a non-profit organization organiza-tion comprised of over 200 law enforcement en-forcement officers and their representatives. repre-sentatives. It was established as a result of the 1990 Governor's Conference. Con-ference. Haycock started his law enforcement enforce-ment as a city policeman in Moab in November 1977. He was advanced to sergeant in 1979, joining the Utah Highway Patrol in May 1984. Haycock, a son of Garn and Shirley Haycock, Tropic, was reared in Tropic and graduated from Bryce Valley High. He married the former Debbie Neusanger. They reside re-side in Moab and are the parents of two sons and one daughter. Hay-dock Hay-dock has been on the force for nine years. |