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RALEIGH -- A new task force to reform the state highway patrol will met for the first time Thursday. Gov. Bev Perdue put the team of state leaders together last week to move the troubled patrol forward.

“The highway patrol has had to confront some personal misconduct issues, that has reflected negatively on the highway patrol,” N.C. Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety Rueben Young told the governor's Highway Patrol Advisory Team .

It was a who's who gathered around a small table in Raleigh Thursday afternoon. It included a former chief justice, a district attorney and former FBI assistant director. All of them were given a mission by Perdue to help get the state highway patrol back on track.

“It's good to have a code, but there is a lot that goes into implementing the full impact of a code,” commented Ralph Walker, team member and former judge.

Team members had a lot of questions for this first meeting which laid the groundwork on what they were expected to address. It also put all the information, current law and pending proposals on the table. Proposals the group is looking at right now include restricting where a trooper can live in relation to where they work and requiring personal cell phone records to be turned over to the state.

“Well we expect them to look at these proposals with the breath of their experience and advise us with regard to where the minefields are, where the pitfalls are, and why they believe this policy, are drafted policy or proposed policy is a good idea or not a good idea,” said Young.

The highway patrol has been fighting image issues for a while now. It came to a head recently when a public member of the force resigned amid a scandal and then the commander, Col. Randy Glover, chose to step down.

This transition team is expected to have their recommendations to Perdue by Sept. 1, which is also the day that Glover is stepping down.