On December 19, 2020, a Greene County man was one of 36 probationary troopers that graduated from the 80th Indiana State Police Academy. This week, he was one of nine of those troopers that reported for duty at the ISP Lowell District.

Trooper Austin Robertson is a 2015 graduate of Linton Stockton High School. After high school, he played collegiate basketball at Oakland City University and then was employed as a jail officer with the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department.

ISP Probationary Trooper Austin Robertson

Probationary troopers now begin their next phase of instruction, a three-month field training period, working alongside veteran troopers. Field training aims to give troopers a practical application to the training they received throughout the formal academy. Upon completing field training, the troopers will be assigned a state police patrol vehicle and begin solo patrol.

These troopers have already completed over 1,200 hours of structured training in law enforcement techniques and hands-on, scenario-based training at the Indiana State Police Recruit Academy. Their curriculum included criminal law instruction, emergency vehicle operations, psychology, traffic law, crash investigation, self-defense, first responder, and other general enforcement related training.

The new troopers assigned to the Lowell Post are Kevin Council, Kansas Cox, Zachary Glenn, Riley Hieb, Jordan Jones, James Lee, Allison Marlowe, Ryan Parent and Austin Robertson.