Ohio State Highway Patrol aiming to recruit more women troopers
The Ohio State Highway Patrol wants 30% of its troopers to be women by 2030. The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) is aiming to recruit 30% of its troopers to be women by 2030. The goal is to gain more women in law enforcement and to show them different ways to serve the department. The biggest challenge will be engaging women in the law enforcement workforce and showing them different perspectives. The recruitment process involves individuals who are self-motivated, self-driven, and up for challenge. New troopers learn about female trailblazers like Diane Harris, the first woman to join the department in 1977, whose stories show the progress the department has made in incorporating women into OSHP.
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The Ohio State Highway Patrol wants 30% of its troopers to be women by 2030.
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“I think the more women you have in a workforce, I think it kind of gives a different perspective to the women we are serving, and then it helps us give a different perspective in our division too,” she said.
“I think anybody who is self-motivated, self-driven, anybody who is up for any type of challenge if you want to push yourself beyond the types of anything you have ever done, I think you would be a perfect fit for our division,” said Noah.
She said the biggest challenge in recruiting women to OSHP is getting them interested in law enforcement and showing them that there are different ways to serve the department.
“One thing I have learned is I can be a state trooper, but I can also be a mother, a wife, I can go back to school, I am getting my master’s degree right now- you can do many things at once and still be a good trooper,” she said.
“I felt the same way a lot of females feel entering into a workforce that is primarily male-dominated, that I wasn’t sure if I would be good enough or wasn’t sure that I would make it and just having that confidence in yourself and the academy going through that experience, they definitely build up your confidence and get you where you need to be to be a good state trooper,” Matt said.
“I am here to prove to you that myself and every amazing woman who has come before me, we have all fought through those same things. We maybe thought we weren’t good enough and we fought through that, we have all been in a position where we thought maybe I am not strong enough. Yes, you are. That is a mentality you have to have you have to have a no quit mentality,” Chesnick said.
As new troopers, they sit in classrooms dedicated to some of the female trailblazers in OSHP like Diane Harris. She was the first woman to join the department in 1977 and the reason OSHP changed the role’s original name of patrolmen to troopers.
Their stories are reminders of how far the department has come in the last few decades and how far they still want to go when it comes to incorporating women into OSHP.