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The Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety (PR DPS) (Spanish: Departamento de Seguridad Pública de Puerto Rico) is the umbrella organization within the Executive branch of Puerto Rico that agglomerates the Puerto Rico Law Enforcement and Emergency Response agencies in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The first form of the Puerto Rico Police began in 1837, when Spanish governor Francisco Javier de Moreda y Prieto created La Guardia Civil de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Civil Guard) to protect the lives and property of Puerto Ricans, who at the time were Spanish subjects. It provided police services to the entire island, although many ...
The Puerto Rico Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (Departamento de Corrección y Rehabilitación de Puerto Rico) is the law enforcement executive department of the government responsible for structuring, developing, and coordinating the public policies in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the U.S.
Location of Puerto Rico in relation to the continental United States. In Puerto Rico, the law regulates the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. As an unincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico is an "appurtenant jurisdiction" to which the Insular cases apply. Except for provisions of the U.S. Constitution that ...
The Bureau of the Puerto Rico Medical Emergency Corps. [2] Spanish : Cuerpo de Emergencias Médicas de Puerto Rico ( CEMPR )), [ 3 ] also ( Negociado del Cuerpo de Emergencias Médicas ) [ 4 ] is an agency, assigned to the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety , that responds to medical emergencies across the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico .
The Aguadilla City Police Department (A.C.P.D.)(Spanish: Policia Municipal de Aguadilla) are the local police force in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. [1]It was created under law #19 of May 12, 1977, known as Ley de la Policia Municipal (Municipal Police Law) creating the local police forces in each city of Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rico municipal police is the group of local police forces of the different municipalities of Puerto Rico. Each municipal police operates independently and autonomously from one another with the mayor of the respective municipality being its commander-in-chief . [ 1 ]
The San Juan Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of San Juan, PR, with jurisdiction only [citation needed] in the city limits of San Juan. It is also the largest municipal police force in the commonwealth, and the second largest of any police force in the commonwealth, after the Puerto Rico Police Department.