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The governing body of the Department of Public Safety is the Public Safety Commission, with all members being appointed by the Governor of Texas. The commission is responsible for appointing the director of the department. The director is assisted in managing the department by three deputy directors and multiple division chiefs.
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 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.
The new policy could have wide-reaching impact and could affect many of the 92,000 trans adults living in Texas.
The Office of the Inspector General is investigating the claims, which include pushing small children and women with nursing babies back into the river and turning away a 4-year-old girl who later ...
Senate Bill 4, a proposed new law making it a state crime to enter Texas illegally from Mexico, could potentially harm community relations, burden local taxpayers and strain county jails, El Paso ...
Texas Department of Public Safety; Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending; Texas Department of State Health Services; Texas Department of Transportation; Texas Division of Emergency Management; Texas Education Agency; Texas Engineering Experiment Station; Texas Engineering Extension Service; Texas Ethics Commission; Texas Facilities ...
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 ...