The Arkansas Highway Police is seeking highly qualified, self-motivated applicants to become the next generation of AHP Officers. If you have what it takes to join Arkansas’s first State Law Enforcement Agency and a desire to serve the citizens of Arkansas while protecting the state’s highway system and motoring public, then look no further.
AHP Officers maintain expertise in size, weight, hazardous materials, license, tax, traffic and criminal law enforcement, and motor carrier safety.
In addition to full and complete law enforcement authority, powers, duties, and responsibilities, the Arkansas Highway Police (AHP) is charged with the primary enforcement of all laws pertaining to axle and gross weight; the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program; the movement of oversize loads and/or vehicles; vehicle licensing and operator/commercial licensing; motor fuel taxes; special distillate motor fuel taxes; and the interstate or intrastate shipment of the same; the interstate and intrastate shipment of hazardous materials within Arkansas; traffic enforcement, placing a special emphasis on commercial and private non-passenger transportation vehicles and construction/work zones; and the collection of those revenues prescribed the Arkansas Commissioner of Revenues, acting as his agents.
Today the AHP is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of drug interdiction, motor carrier safety and hazardous materials enforcement, and training. Officers serve as instructors for the University of Arkansas Criminal Justice Institute, National Training Center and the Drug Interdiction Assistance Program as well as the state’s basic law enforcement academies.
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Email: ahprecruiting@ardot.gov
Recruitment Info by telephone: (501) 569-2421
Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
10324 Interstate 30
Little Rock, Arkansas 72209
Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
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