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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 jurisdiction of the Harris County Sheriff's Office often overlaps with several other law enforcement agencies, among them the Texas Highway Patrol, the eight Harris County Constable Precincts, and several municipal police agencies including the city of Houston Police Department. The duties of a Texas sheriff generally include keeping the ...
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] The previous Capitol Police department was a ...
A man drove into a Texas mall after a 19-mile police pursuit, ... according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. ... A Texas Highway Patrol Trooper attempted to stop a pickup truck around 5 p ...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said it seized more than 13 pounds of suspected fentanyl after a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle in Carson County.
Oct. 22—An Odessa woman has been charged in connection to the September death of a DPS trooper in Ector County. Laura Lorena Rodriguez was booked into the Ector County Detention Center Tuesday ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.