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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) is the highway patrol agency for North Carolina which has no per-se "state police" agency. The Patrol has jurisdiction anywhere in the state except for federal or military installations and on the Cherokee Indian Reservation or on Cherokee outlying lands in the western mountains.
N.C. State Highway Patrol's rendering of Houston's crash on I-40 Aug. 1 depicts the Mercedes-Benz driving on the right shoulder, hitting a tractor trailer and traveling over and back across the ...
A tractor-trailer truck driver was going an estimated 70 mph when he plowed into the back of slowed traffic in a construction zone on Interstate 95 last month, according to the State Highway Patrol.
Robert Leon Hester, 65, of Cedar Grove, was killed in the crash just before 5 p.m. Tuesday on N.C. 86, north of Hillsborough, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said in an update Thursday.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of North Carolina.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 504 law enforcement agencies employing 23,442 sworn police officers, about 254 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
In general, state police officers or highway patrol officers, known as state troopers, perform functions that do not fall within the jurisdiction of a county’s sheriff (Vermont being a notable exception), such as enforcing traffic laws on state highways and interstates, overseeing security of state capitol complexes, protecting governors ...
The Highway State Patrol for North Carolina warns drivers to exercise extreme caution when driving on the road during poor winter storm conditions.
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) is an umbrella agency that carries out many of the state's law enforcement, emergency response and homeland security functions. The department was created in 1977 as the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.