Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The department was established in 1982 and is accredited with the Texas Police Chiefs Association (TPCA), one of only five public transit police departments in North America to be so. [50] State law grants Metro Police jurisdiction in the counties in which Metro is located, provides services, or is supported by a general sales and use tax. [51]
There are over 150 federal law enforcement offices in Texas. including those for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; United States Secret Service; Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and U.S. Marshals. [2]
The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department, serving the fourth-largest city in the United States.
Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) Pennsylvania: 5,544: March 2024 [5] 5: Houston Police Department (HPD) Texas: 5,164: February 2024 [6] 6: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Nevada: 3,363: 2022 [7] 7: Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) District of Columbia: 3,328: March 2024 [8] 8: Miami-Dade ...
A retired Houston-area police chief tapped to lead the department for an annual salary of $174,000 started in August 2022, but he has not hired any officers, in part because CapMetro has not yet ...
The Edward A. Thomas Building, [2] or 1200 Travis, is a 28-story building in Downtown Houston, Texas that is currently occupied by the Houston Police Department as its current headquarters. At one time it was known as the Houston Natural Gas Building. [3] The building houses HPD's administrative and investigative offices. [4]
Clarification: This story was updated to show that CapMetro's police department is set to roll out in 2025. Other aspects of the agency's public safety program are underway. Capital Metro's police ...
Texas rank U.S. rank Metropolitan area Metropolitan division Population (2023 est.) 1 4 Dallas–Fort Worth 8,100,037: 2 5 Houston 7,510,253: 3 24 San Antonio 2,703,999: 4 26 Austin 2,473,275: 5 65 McAllen 898,471: 6 68 El Paso 873,331: 7 110 Killeen-Temple 501,333: 8 121 Corpus Christi 448,323: 9 127 Brownsville-Harlingen 426,710: 10 140