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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]
James Kenneth Crone, often known as Kenneth Crone (August 16, 1941 – February 10, 2011) was a Texas Highway Patrol officer from 1967 to 1978. During his law enforcement career, he was kidnapped on May 2, 1969, by Robert Dent and Ila Fae Holiday and then taken on a slow speed police chase across south Texas involving multiple police jurisdictions.
Bryan Rippee, Chief, Texas Highway Patrol Bryan Rippee began his law enforcement career with DPS in 1996, as a Trooper stationed in Midland. ... Over the years, he ascended through the ranks ...
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 1,913 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.
Sgt. Marc Couch of the Texas Highway Patrol said that while the State of Texas does not allow highway checkpoints, his team of law enforcement professionals will also be out in force this New Year ...
(The Center Square) – Texas Department of Public Safety troopers continue to apprehend human smugglers and rescue unaccompanied minors at the border through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security ...
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 initial budget of US$450,000 (equivalent to $10,000,485 in 2023).