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The Mississippi Highway Patrol is the highway patrol and acting state police agency for the U.S. state of Mississippi, and has law enforcement jurisdiction over the majority of the state. The Mississippi Highway Patrol specializes in the patrol of state and federal highways throughout the state of Mississippi, and was formed in 1938 to enforce ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
The position of "Commissioner of Public Safety" was first created in 1938, with the establishment of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. [4]The Department expanded in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Narcotics was established in 1971 to conduct specialized enforcement and carry out investigations into the abuse, trafficking, manufacturing, and mishandling of controlled substances. [5]
MS 67 runs between MS 53 and MS 57, but it was MS 55 before I-55 was built. MS 76 was the number given to the Pontotoc bypass in place of MS 6; this may be the number for the entire Corridor V of the Appalachian Development Highway System The bypass was recently renamed MS 6/US 278 after the completion of the corridor portion that reconnects ...
Mississippi Highway Patrol releases traffic fatalities and incidents that occurred over the New Year holidays.
A map showing the Captiol Police's jurisdiction. The red shows the Capitol's Police current jurisdiction. The blue shows the areas of Jackson the jurisdiction will be expanding to come July 1.
In 2007 the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened a driver's license facility across the highway from the prison. [14] The Mississippi State Hospital of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health is in Whitfield in unincorporated Rankin County. [15] [16] It occupies the former Rankin Farm prison grounds. [17]
The Mississippi Legislature will now have to adopt a new map for its 174 Senate and House districts to include more majority-Black districts in 2025, a three-judge panel ruled late Thursday morning.