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Standard traffic enforcement patrol vehicles are required by state law to have a white door with, in the case of the CHP, a star. The CHP operates traditional black and white as well as all-white patrol vehicles. The California Highway Patrol is one of the few organizations to continue to use the older toll-free "Zenith 1-2000" number.
San Diego Police officers confer with FEMA Administrator David Paulison during the October 2007 California wildfires.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100,000 residents.
The California State Police (CSP) was a division of the California Department of General Services, and was a security police agency which merged with the California Highway Patrol in 1995; following this, the California Highway Patrol assumed security police responsibilities in addition to its highway patrol duties.
A view of downtown Bakersfield. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent California Highway Patrol officers to the city in an effort to tamp down crime. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
In the newest wave of grievances, residents of Vallejo, an East Bay city 20 minutes north of Oakland, signed a petition last week pleading with Newsom to deploy CHP officers there, citing an ...
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer along the San Tomas Expressway through Santa Clara, California. A highway patrol is a police unit, detail, or law enforcement agency created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways within a jurisdiction.
A routine traffic stop took an unusual turn when a California Highway Patrol official stopped a Rolls-Royce in Madera County on Monday. Officials pulled the 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost over for ...
A California Border Protection Station on Interstate 15 at Yermo, circa 2013. After a newer station was built, this station was demolished in 2018. California Border Protection Stations (CBPS) are 16 checkpoints maintained by the California Department of Food and Agriculture along the state's land borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona ...