Colin Peabody

The retirees of the Arizona Highway Patrol/ Department of Public Safety are back regaling us with their fantastic stories. As you have seen in book one and two these retirees are quite the story tellers. In book three they tell stories from pursuits and narcotics busts to a hair pulling monkey. The history of the Department of Public Safety begins with the Arizona Rangers and the Arizona Highway Patrol before becoming the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The member's names, began with Rangers, Highway Patrolmen, Officers and finally State Troopers. No matter the title, through the years the culture has remained the same as these dedicated, courageous men and women live up to the department's motto of "Courteous Vigilance. " Grab a beverage and ride along with these men and women and see what it is like to be an Arizona lawman.

When the pandemic hit and everyone was quarantined at home, Paul Palmer contacted Colin Peabody, Chairman of the Coalition of DPS Retirees, and talked over having retirees submit stories about their careers. The original thought was to collect them and then Colin would send them out to retirees in the CDPSR e-mails for our officers to enjoy as they were homebound. It was such a success people began saying the stories should be in a book. The book "That Reminds Me of The Time" was born.

A collection of stories from the Arizona Highway Patrol Coalition of Retirees. Some funny, some not-so-funny, some short, some long - ALL important to the history of the Arizona Highway Patrol.