Mississippi

• Type of program: 911 or general emergency.
• Program name: *HP.
• Program housed:
• Program began: 
• Reason for initiation:
• How does the program operate:
• Phone number used: *HP (*47).
• How is program announced or promoted: TV or radio and highway signs or billboards.
• Is funding required: No.
• Has any evaluation been conducted: No.
• Some problems with program: Too few patrol officers to attend to the calls.
• Additional information: Calls may be in a different jurisdiction area than that where the dispatcher, or the person who receives the call, is located.
• Contact information:

                        Larry Luke, Communications Analyst
                        Mississippi Highway Patrol
                        601-987-1446
                        lluke@mdps.state.ms.us

                        Joseph Naegele, System Administrator II
                        Mississippi Highway Patrol
                        601-946-4394 (cell)

                        Donald Loper, Communications Director
                        Mississippi Highway Patrol
                        601-933-2605
                        dloper@mdps.state.ms.us

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