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‘Trooper Air’ Stepped Up as Pandemic Took Hold ‘Trooper Air’ Stepped Up as Pandemic Took Hold Alaska State Troopers load prisoners onto a DPS King Air aircraft in Kotzebue. Image-DPS Transporting prisoners across Alaska’s vast distances is a challenge on a good day, but when you add dangerous winter storms and the COVID-19 outbreak, most would call the task near impossible. However, this challenge doesn’t stop the nearly 400 Alaska State and Wildlife Troopers that patrol the nation’s largest state. The Alaska Department of Public Safety uses everything from patrol cars, state aircraft, commercial air carriers, snow machines, vessels, and ATVs to bring prisoners to a regional jail operated by a local community or the Alaska Department of Corrections. It can take a lot of logistical planning to arrest an individual in a remote community in Alaska and safely transport that person to a regional jail. While law enforcement agencies in the lower 48 and urb ....