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Show State Trooper Billie Hunt honored byUMTA jv-'rS' '"'""'TO 1 I f The Utah Motor Transport Association presented the Utah Patrolman of the Year award to Trooper Billie M. Hunt of the Utah Highway Patrol on Friday, October 7, at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City. Officiating at the ceremonies was L. Lee Johnson, President of the Utah Motor Transport Association, and presenting the award was the Utah Public Safety Commissioner, Com-missioner, Larry Lunnen. The award was given for outstanding service in that Billie Hunt, and his wife Sharon, were recognized as offering many services to the Motor Transport Association members. "Trooper Hunt has developed a highly productive and effective program of selective enforcement en-forcement while maintaining main-taining excellent rannort TOP HONORS. Patrolman Billie M. Hunt, left, is presented I plaque as Utah Highway Patrolman of the Year by L. Lee Johnson and Larry Lunnen at ceremonies in SalfLake City. with the motoring public," Hunt, along with his wife, Sharon maintain a CB base in their home in Parowan. During 1977, they have provided the following services to the public and to UHP: They keep a radio log of all important calls. approximately 40 drivers per day contact their base station and one out of five leaves a message to be relayed to another CB unit some miles behind. Truck companies phone them from all over the US to leave messages for their drivers. They give CB reports on weather and road conditions when requested. They receive reports by CB of offenders and drunk drivers. This information is relayed to the Utah Highway Patrol Radio Communicator Center in Cedar City for appropriate action. They relay information concerning road hazards and forest fires. They have received many force was the lawful exercise exer-cise of deadly force under the provisions of the Utah Criminal Code. "His conduct since the shooting has been an inspiration in-spiration to all other troopers in the division. He has shown humility, poise, and concern without expressing ex-pressing a need for pity or sympathy. To the other extreme, he has not been arrogant, overbearing, or boisterous. He has left a lasting constructive impression im-pression on all who know him," others have said of Trooper Hunt. "Attempts to Locate" and have successfully completed 30 during the past year. Many are death messages. They have received many distress and emergency calls and have arranged for help and rescue. Trooper Hunt and his wife are also Division 7 reporters for the Beehive Magazine. On April 1, 1977, Trooper Hunt spotted, followed, and stopped a vehicle and suspect wanted in connection con-nection with an armed - robbery in Beaver, Utah that had occurred about 10 minutes earlier. The suspect came out of the vehicle with a .357 magnum revolver in hand fully cocked. The suspect refused to drop the gun and Trooper Hunt was forced to shoot. He fire one round of buck shot from his shotgun striking the suspect in the chest and killing him instantly. The investigation that followed by the Beaver County Sheriff and Beaver County Attorney fully exonerated Trooper Hunt from the commission of any form of criminal homicide and that his use of deadly |