From OHIO STATE HIGHWAY PATROL BOWLING GREEN POST
Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Jeffery J. Huffman has been selected as the 2024 Trooper of the Year at the Bowling Green Post.
The selection of Trooper Huffman, 34, is in recognition of outstanding service during 2024 at the Bowling Green Post. Fellow officers stationed at the Bowling Green Post chose Trooper Huffman based on leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic work attitude, and cooperation with supervisors, peers and the public.
Trooper Huffman is now in contention for the District and State Trooper of the Year Award to be announced at a later date.
Trooper Huffman joined the Patrol in October 2016 as a member of the 161st Academy Class. He earned his commission in March of the following year and has been assigned to the Bowling Green Post throughout his career, where he has been Post Trooper of the Year twice. He earned the Ace Award for excellence in auto larceny enforcement four times and the Criminal Patrol Award six times.
Additionally, he has earned the Colonel Paul A. Pride State Criminal Patrol Award twice.
Trooper Huffman earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Bowling Green State University in 2014. He is originally from Fostoria and a graduate of Arcadia High School.
