Cheating Allegation Puts Highway Patrol Promotions On Hold

The North Carolina Highway Patrol is putting a temporary hold on promotions after an allegation of cheating.

Promotions are based in part on written exams involving job-task scenarios and knowledge of policy and procedures. 

The tests help create annual promotional lists which usually take effect at the start of each new fiscal year.

That list traditionally would have come out Monday. But the promotions have been postponed while internal affairs investigates an allegation of cheating that was made June 20, according to a release from the highway patrol.

The decision to delay the promotions came after a meeting with officials at N.C. State University, which had helped develop the test.

The patrol provided no details of the cheating allegation.