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The Florida Highway Patrol is authorized by Florida law to have an Auxiliary force. The Auxiliary personnel are volunteers who dedicate a minimum number of hours on a part-time, but regularly recurring basis to supplement the Florida Highway Patrol in its legislated duties. The maximum number of auxiliary personnel is limited by law.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) is a statutorily established [1] cabinet agency of Florida government. [2] In 1969, under Governor Claude Kirk, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Public Safety were merged forming the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. [ 3 ]
The Office of Motor Carrier Compliance created in 1980 transitioned from the Florida Department of Transportation to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) division of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) on July 1, 2011. [2]
The Florida Highway Patrol was in a high-speed chase Sunday morning with a driver of an SUV for at least 30 miles on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys. It ended with the car crashing into a construction ...
According to the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, there were 170 crashes and more than 14,000 citations issued for drivers failing to move over in the state in 2022. Figures for 2023 ...
Jorge Alberto Alfonso, 61, was driving a white Ford F-150 on New Year’s Day, with red and blue emergency lights flashing, when he was spotted by the Florida Highway Patrol, states an arrest ...
Originally known as Legislative Security, it operated under the Florida Department of General Services (DGS). The first director was Florida Highway Patrol Captain Nathan Sharron, and the original administrative offices were in the Larson Building, with security operations office in a few small offices in the Senate Office Building. In 1973 ...
Traffic code: Police still can use other sections of Florida’s traffic code to ticket drivers for flashing their headlights. Those include prohibitions against using high beams within 500 feet ...