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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.
In 2010, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Trooper Mark DeArza, 39, of Houston, and DPS clerk Lidia Gutierrez, 37, of Galena Park, Texas, were convicted of conspiring to sell Texas driver's licenses to unqualified applicants for a fee after pleading guilty to the charge before United States District Judge Gray Miller. [11]
Houston was founded by brothers Augustus and John Kirby Allen in 1836 and incorporated as a city in 1837. As the capital city of the Republic of Texas, it quickly grew, and so did the need for a cohesive law enforcement agency. The Houston Police Department was founded in 1841. The first HPD badge issued bore the number "1."
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.
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 ...
1 dead, 13 injured after stolen semi-truck is rammed into Texas DPS office Juliette Arcodia and Minyvonne Burke and Dennis Romero Updated April 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM
During the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas in the 1920s, a sizable number of DPD were KKK members, including police commissioners and police chiefs. [5] [6] [7] One list of members includes at least 106 Dallas police officers, which at the time was the majority of the police department. [8]
The consultants recommended merging the Rangers with the Texas Highway Patrol under a new agency called the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). This change took place in 1935, with an initial budget of US$450,000 (equivalent to $10,000,485 in 2023).