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The Texas Highway Patrol is a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety and is the largest state-level law enforcement agency in the U.S. state of Texas.The patrol's primary duties are enforcement of state traffic laws and commercial vehicle regulation, but it is a fully empowered police agency with authority to enforce criminal law anywhere in the state.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics ' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.
On August 10, 1935, the Texas Legislature created the Department of Public Safety, along with 103 other bills. [6] The newly formed department became the new home for the Texas Rangers, The Highway Patrol, and the crime laboratory. [7]
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced more than 242 pounds of suspected cocaine were seized after a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle in Oldham County last week.
A privately compiled list of Highway Patrol organizations and similar state police agencies is available on the web. [13] The Iowa State Patrol maintains a list of phone numbers and cell phone dialing codes for non-emergency calls to the dispatchers of the Highway Patrol organizations in all 50 states. [14]
The Texas Department of Public Safety said it nabbed three ex-convicts with weapons and drugs in El Paso on Friday, including one admitted human smuggler with the Paisa prison gang.
Dec. 20—AUSTIN — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) on Wednesday announced Bryan Rippee as the new Chief of the Texas Highway Patrol (THP), and Jason Hester as the new Chief of the ...
All marked patrol units are painted in a traditional black-and-white color scheme. Older vehicles exhibit the word "Police" on the front quarter panel and the rear doors, with the words "Fort Worth" printed in black over an orange-tan longhorn head (the city's logo) on the front doors; newer vehicles place the word "Police" below the longhorn ...