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Matt Langer

Colonel
Minnesota State Patrol

Colonel Matt Langer has been a Minnesota State Trooper since 1999. He began his career in the St. Paul station where he worked the afternoon shift. He spent over four years on the Metro Crash Reconstruction Team where he reconstructed hundreds of fatal and serious injury crashes. He was the director of the State Patrol’s fleet and asset management section before assuming public information duties. As a Captain, he directed public information work, homeland security efforts, and traffic safety grants.

He served for 2½ years as the Assistant Chief and a year as the Acting Chief before being appointed Colonel, Chief of the State Patrol, in January 2015.

Colonel Langer has a master’s degree in public and nonprofit administration, as well as a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and law enforcement. In addition to his work at the State Patrol, he has held an adjunct faculty position at Century College since 2006. He is active on the International Association of Chiefs of Police Board of Directors and the State and Provincial Police Division Executive Board where he is the immediate past General Chair and the current Chair of the Roadway Safety Committee.

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