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The Virginia State Police, officially the Virginia Department of State Police, conceived in 1919 and established in 1932, is the state police force for the U.S. state of Virginia. The agency originated out of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles as an inspector and enforcer of highway laws.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.
This is a list of U.S. state and local law enforcement agencies — local, regional, special and statewide government agencies (state police) of the U.S. states, of the federal district, and of the territories that provide law enforcement duties, including investigations, prevention and patrol functions.
The only deep south, former Confederate State to have a true state police agency is Louisiana. The Louisiana State Police also first started out as a highway patrol agency but in 1936 it was established as a state police, at the desire and influence of the late Governor Huey Long, who used the troopers as a powerful body guard force. Long is ...
Every state in the U.S. has car insurance laws to protect drivers, their passengers and their vehicles and property. Virginia is one of two states, however, that do not require drivers to have car ...
Virginia State Police troopers alongside local police officers in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia does not have overlapping county and city jurisdictions, whereas in most other states, municipalities generally fall within (and share jurisdiction and many other governmental responsibilities with) one (or more) county(ies ...
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But each state has its own DETRAN (such as DETRAN-SP, [52] that belongs to state of São Paulo), that manages actual registration of vehicles, emission of driver's licenses, etc. Chile - local police; Colombia - Servicios Integrales para la Movilidad; Guyana - The Licence Office; Ecuador - local commission de transito office