More Swimming Training Called For The Missouri State Highway Patrol

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers say standards for State Highway Patrol swimming training are necessary after a handcuffed man drowned while in custody. A House panel released a report yesterday, noting swim training decreased when the highway and water patrols merged in 2011. Lawmakers spent months investigating the merger after Brandon Ellingson fell from a trooper's boat in May 2014 in the Lake of the Ozarks and drowned. The trooper had arrested the 20-year-old Iowa man on suspicion of drunken boating.