When the incident occurred in 2014 that led to Brandon Ellingson drowning in the lake, the Water Patrol Division took a step back and decided to change their policies and how they train their troopers. Captain Matt Walz says, while they can’t change the past, they can still learn from it.
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Going into the next boating season, the Water Patrol will separate the different operations from the Troop F portion so that specific troopers will be solely responsible for patrolling the lake, instead of all of the different waterways within the troop. They will also be assigning 5 additional troopers to the lake area. Those five troopers are set to graduate from the academy today.
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