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Police vehicles in the United States and Canada consist of a wide range of police vehicles used by police and law enforcement officials in the United States and in Canada.Most police vehicles in the U.S. and Canada are produced by American automakers, primarily the Big Three, and many vehicle models and fleet norms have been shared by police in both countries.
In the spring of 1878, the city officially founded the San Antonio Volunteer Fire Department. [6] As the city of San Antonio continued to expand and grow, so did the volunteer fire companies. During the early 1880s, three new fire companies were established. The first was the Second Ward Hose Company which was founded on April 14, 1883.
The San Antonio Police Department's organization includes a chief of police a command and executive staff, [11] and the use of community crime mapping. [ 12 ] As of November 2018, the department had 2,358 officers of which 1,204 were Hispanic (51.1%), 1,003 were white (42.5%), 119 were Black (5.0%), and 32 other (1.4%).
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.
In May 1928, Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren doubled the number of existing units. [7] By 1929, the Emergency Service Squad consisted of eleven trucks and was staffed by over 250 sergeants and patrolmen, and an additional nine trucks and over 200 more personnel were scheduled to be added in January 1930. [8]
A police aircraft is a rotary-wing aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft, nonrigid-wing aircraft or lighter-than-air aircraft used in police operations. They are commonly used for traffic control, ground support, search and rescue, high-speed car pursuits, observation, air patrol, riot control, and police tactical unit transportation.
A SWAT vehicle, police armored vehicle, or police rescue vehicle is a non-military armored vehicle used by police tactical units to respond to incidents. They are most often in configurations similar to military light utility vehicles , infantry mobility vehicles , or armoured personnel carriers .
A narco tank, also called rhino trucks or monstruos (Spanish for 'monster'), is a type of improvised fighting vehicle used by drug cartels. [2] The vehicles are primarily civilian trucks with improvised vehicle armour , which adds operational mobility , tactical offensive , and defensive capabilities when fighting law enforcement or rivals ...