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Cheating Allegation Puts Highway Patrol Promotions On Hold

A scene from the State Highway Promotions Ceremony in 2017. Credit: N.C. Department of Public Safety

The North Carolina Highway Patrol is putting a temporary hold on promotions after an allegation of cheating.

Promotions are based in part on written exams involving job-task scenarios and knowledge of policy and procedures. 

The tests help create annual promotional lists which usually take effect at the start of each new fiscal year.

That list traditionally would have come out Monday. But the promotions have been postponed while internal affairs investigates an allegation of cheating that was made June 20, according to a release from the highway patrol.

The decision to delay the promotions came after a meeting with officials at N.C. State University, which had helped develop the test.

The patrol provided no details of the cheating allegation.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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