How to become a Georgia State Patrol trooper Credit: Hyosub Shin Sgt. Maurice Raines, post commander of Georgia State Patrol Post 2, sits in his car monitoring I-85 in LaGrange on a weekday in April.

Georgia authorities continued to search for two suspects Tuesday following an hours-long SWAT standoff in connection with a fatal shooting earlier in the day, the Hall County Sheriff’s ...

Waits then barricaded himself inside the home, and the Butts County SWAT team was requested, along with some troopers. By 4 a.m., the state patrol’s SWAT team was called in.

Leesburg -- The Georgia State Patrol SWAT team moves into the old elementary school in Leesburg. A gunman has run into the building, and is waiting in ambush. The troopers must find him. It's just ...