Captain Carl F. Saizan Jr. was promoted to Troop Commander of Troop B on August 31, 2009. His promotion to Captain of Troop B came after a twenty-five-year climb up the law enforcement ladder.

Saizan is originally from St. Bernard Parish and is a graduate of Chalmette High School class of 1983.   At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve where he served for four years before transferring to the United States Coast Guard Reserve, where he served for an additional eight years. 

Saizan began his law enforcement career at the age of eighteen, serving as a correctional officer for the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office.  He went on to work as a deputy for the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Department for five years, while attending college.

Saizan began his career with the Louisiana State Police as a State Trooper at Troop B in New Orleans, where, he patrolled the highways carrying out law enforcement duties. During his first year as a trooper, he was selected as a member of the State Police Special Weapons and Tactical Team (SWAT).  Soon after, he was certified as a firearms instructor, attended the Peace Officers Standards and Training / FBI Instructor Development course and served as an instructor for several state police academy classes. After being on the SWAT Team for ten years, Saizan was appointed as the Region 1 Platoon Leader, where he served an additional nine years.  During his nineteen years on SWAT he has participated in and supervised several high profile operations including bank hostage situations, police shootings, a serial murder search operation, as well as numerous high-risk warrant arrest operations.

 In September of 1994, he was transferred to the Troop B Criminal Patrol Unit, where he spent the next four years patrolling the interstate highways looking for criminals, drug and money couriers, stolen vehicles and other criminal related activity.  During his time in Criminal Patrols, he was responsible for solving a custodial kidnapping case, and was one of two troopers responsible for the largest cash seizure in state police history, resulting in the seizure of over 1.2 million dollars on an Interstate 10 traffic stop.  In 1995 he received the prestigious “Trooper of the Year” award for his outstanding performance as a member of the Criminal Patrol Unit.

While working under Governor Foster’s administration, Saizan was responsible for re-implementing the State Police Motorcycle Patrol Operations.  He attended the Harley Davidson/Northwestern Motorcycle Instructor Program in Wisconsin, where he received his instructor certification.  He was tasked with building a statewide motorcycle patrol operation from the ground up for all nine Troops in Louisiana. In August of 1998 Saizan was promoted to the rank of sergeant at Troop B, where he served as a shift sergeant for one year before implementing and supervising a full time motorcycle patrol operation at Troop B. He served two years in that position before being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 2000.

In 2004, Saizan attended and graduated from the prestigious Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy in Quantico, Virginia (Session 218^th).

In 2005, immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Saizan supervised the night time uniform patrol operations throughout the Metropolitan New Orleans area.  Shortly thereafter, he assumed responsibility for the entire Katrina Task force Operation in New Orleans.  He was responsible for coordinating operations with several other state police agencies that came to the area to assist with relief efforts.  At its peak, Saizan was responsible for overseeing operations that encompassed 250 troopers, coordinating shift assignments and patrol areas, issuing equipment, and ensuring that personnel were continually informed of ever-changing operating procedures.

In May of 2007 Saizan was appointed Executive Officer of Troop B and was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Troop B facility, communications, fleet, and evidence, as well as many other administrative duties. He worked as Executive Officer of Troop B until his recent promotion to Captain of Troop B.

As a member of The Louisiana State Troopers association, he was responsible for starting the Troop B Children’s Grant-A-Wish program in 1997.  This program grants wishes to terminally ill children using funds that are raised through affiliate sponsored road races, fishing rodeos and other fund raising efforts by The Troop B Associate Affiliate.  Saizan continues as an active member of the Association and has overseen the program for the last twelve years. 

Saizan and his wife Stephanie (Chatelain) have been married for twenty-four years.  They reside in Mandeville where they are parishioners at Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church.  They have five children; Julia (17), Sophie (16), Bernadette (10), twins – Grant and Grace (8), and they are expecting their sixth child in May 2010.