NEWS RELEASE
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
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LANSING — Trooper Corey Hebner of the MSP Gaylord Post is the 2023 Colonel Etue Community Impact Award winner and was recognized today at an awards ceremony in Lansing.
Trooper Hebner, a 28-year veteran, is the Community Service Trooper for the Gaylord Post, covering a five-county area. In his professional capacity, Trooper Hebner is an advisor on several boards in Northern Michigan overseeing three coalitions aimed at keeping kids drug free. He is also a board member for the Northern Opioid Response Consortium, which leads prevention programs and harm reduction efforts to combat substance use disorders.
Trooper Hebner is a program instructor for our T.E.A.M. program – that’s Teaching, Educating, And Mentoring, which provides school liaison officer training. Last year, he assisted MSP’s Office of School Safety with the instruction of behavioral threat assessments and management for school staff and school resource officers.
He also works closely with our Office of Highway Safety Planning as a car safety seat instructor and a panel member for the National Child Passenger Safety Board, which is responsible for developing nationwide police training.
Trooper Hebner is credited with creating an 11-county injury and trauma prevention group that covers Northern Michigan. This group brings hospitals, child abuse advocates, and various community members together to prevent infant trauma and death by providing access to safe sleep sacks, cribs, car safety seats, and car safety seat training. The group also provides public life jacket stations to reduce drowning deaths and provides for water safety awareness at local beaches.
Off-duty, Trooper Hebner commits his time and energy as the varsity and junior varsity baseball coach for Harbor Springs High School and the head coach for the Northern Michigan Patriots travel baseball team.
He teaches courses in criminal justice at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, which has led to three of his students serving as cadets at the Gaylord Post.
We want to thank and recognize Trooper Hebner for his commitment and impact on our communities in northern Michigan and throughout the state.
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