Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. C. Joey Day To Be Promoted To Lieutenant

 C. Joey Day

Captain Jerry C. West, director of the Training Division, General Headquarters, Jefferson City, MO, announces the following promotion effective July 1, 2017:

Sergeant C. Joey Day is being promoted to the rank of lieutenant and assigned as assistant director of the Training Division, General Headquarters, Jefferson City, MO.

Day was appointed to the Patrol on July 1, 1994, as a member of the 67th Recruit Class. After graduating from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy, he was assigned to Troop F, Zone 6, Morgan and Moniteau counties.

On August 1, 1999, he was promoted to corporal and assigned to Zone 12, Gasconade County. On May 16, 2001, he transferred to Troop F, Zone 7, Cooper and Howard counties. Day transferred from Troop F to the Training Division, General Headquarters, as an instructor on January 1, 2006. He was promoted to sergeant on February 4, 2007, and remained in his assignment as an Academy instructor.

Lieutenant Day was born in Springfield, MO. He grew up in Parkville, MO, and graduated from Park Hill High School in Kansas City, MO, in 1991. He attended both the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO, and Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, MO. Lt. Day has two children, Madison (18) and Connor (16).