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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.
The Highway Patrol Division is the unit of the department most frequently seen by citizens. Uniformed troopers of the highway patrol are responsible for enforcing traffic and criminal law, usually in unincorporated areas, and serve as the uniformed Texas state police.
The ensuing disorganization of law enforcement in the state caused the Legislature to engage a firm of consultants to reorganize the state security agencies. The consultants recommended merging the Rangers with the Texas Highway Patrol under a new agency called the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). This change took place in 1935, with an ...
August 2, 2024 at 2:42 PM. AUSTIN, Texas - Texas DPS will be increasing highway enforcement efforts as part of the SafeDRIVE initiative next week, including in Central Texas. This concentrated ...
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 ...
Texas Comptroller - Criminal Investigation Division (State Police) Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (regulatory agency) Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Texas Department of Insurance. State Fire Marshal's Office. Fraud Unit. Texas Department of Public Safety. Texas Highway Patrol.
The goal of the End the Streak campaign is to stop fatalities from occurring on our roadways here in Texas. According to Randee Shields, Director of Traffic Operations, in 2022 alone, over 4,400 ...
The Davis class patrol boats are a six-boat class of patrol gunboats, operated by the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Highway Patrol Division for patrolling the Rio Grande. Each boat has an armament of five FN M240 7.62 mm (0.300 in) medium machine guns , and is powered by three 300 hp (220 kW) outboard engines .