NEWS RELEASE: March 11, 2008
FROM: The Kansas Highway Patrol
CONTACT: TechTRP Edna Buttler (785)296-6800
Cait Purinton-Day (785) 296-6800
Master Trooper Darvin Winn Retires from Patrol
Colonel Terry Maple, Superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, has announced that Master Trooper Darvin S. Winn retired from the Patrol on March 8, 2008. He served the citizens of Kansas for more than 26 years.
Winn joined the Patrol on June 18, 1981, as a trooper assigned to road patrol duties in the Olathe area, where he served his entire career with the agency. He was promoted to master trooper in 2000. As a member of the Patrol, Winn was an original member of the agency's Peer Support Team. He also worked with the development of the Critical Highway Accident Response Team (CHART), and he was a member of the first class of crash reconstruction mappers. Winn was presented the Johnson County Citizen of the Year award in 1984 by the Lenexa Pilot Club. He was recognized for the arrest and conviction of an individual connected to an aggravated arson fire at a Merriam fire station. The investigation developed from the arrest of an impaired driver involved in a motor vehicle crash.
Winn is a graduate of Fredonia High School in Fredonia, Kansas, and he earned an associate's of science in criminal justice from Neosho County Community College. Winn served in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1972, most recently holding the rank of specialist 4 in air traffic control. Prior to joining the Patrol, Winn was a deputy with the Riley County Sheriff's Office from 1972-73, a police officer with the Chanute Police Department from 1973-74, and a candidate for sheriff of Wilson County in 1976.
Congratulations, Darvin, on your retirement!