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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.
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 Capitol Police (or properly, Region VII - Capitol of the Texas Highway Patrol) provide law enforcement and security for state property within the Texas Capitol Complex. The Department of Public Safety assumed the responsibilities of the Capitol Police by legislative mandate in 1991. [ 1 ]
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 ...
The roadwork is part of a $483.5 million expansion project. Construction on Highway 50 will block drivers from using several major exits in Sacramento, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Caltrans added the Fifth and W Street on-ramp to westbound Highway 50 will be closed from 10 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday. Within those hours, the Interstate 5 south and northbound connectors to ...
The DMV is part of the California State Transportation Agency. It is headquartered in Sacramento and operates local offices in nearly every part of the state. As of December 2017, the DMV employed over 8,900 people—35% at headquarters and 65% at 172 field offices (and various other locations). [2]
During Governor Jerry Brown's second term, he occasionally used California Highway Patrol Beechcraft Super King Air 200 airplane for business related to the law enforcement department, but he mostly relied on commercial air travel for official business. During his first term between 1975–1983, he sold the governor's plane.