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PRESS RELEASE:  September 21, 2007
FROM:   The Kansas Highway Patrol
CONTACT: Lieutenant John A. Eichkorn (785) 296-6800
Technical Trooper Edna Buttler (785) 296-6800

Technical Trooper Craft Retires from Patrol

Colonel William Seck, Superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, has announced that Technical Trooper Robert P. Craft retired from the Patrol on September 10, 2007, after serving the citizens of Kansas for 26 years.

Craft joined the Kansas Highway Patrol on June 18, 1981, and was assigned to road patrol duties in the Marion area. In 1994, he was promoted to master trooper and continued patrolling in the Marion area. In 1999, Craft became a sergeant and was THE firearms coordinator in the Marion area. In 2001, he became the firearms coordinator at the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy in Salina. He became a technical trooper in 2004 and continued his firearms duties at the Training Academy. As a member of the Patrol, Craft was the Troop C (north central Kansas) range master from 1988 to 1993, and he was the assistant range master at the Training Academy from 1990 to 1997. Craft was the Training Academy range master from 1997 until his retirement. He also served on the Winchester Law Enforcement Advisory Board from 2000 to 2002.

Craft is a graduate of Clay County Community High School in Clay Center, Kansas. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1975 to 1979, last holding the rank of sergeant and acting as chief of an HH 46 helicopter crew that performed search-and-rescue missions. Prior to joining the Patrol, Craft was a cattle rancher at Price Ranch in Latham, Kansas.