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Kansas Gov. Kelly taps DEA inspection chief to head highway patrol
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Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has named Drug Enforcement Administration Inspection Division head Erik Smith as the state's next superintendent of highway patrol.
Smith has strong ties to Kansas. He is a native of the small central Kansas town of Ellsworth, holds a criminal justice degree from Friends University in Wichita, and served nine years with the Sedgwick County sheriff's office, also in Wichita, before joining the DEA. He has been chief of the DEA's Inspection Division since 2021.
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