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The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department, serving the fourth-largest city in the United States.
The main switchboard phone number was later replaced with the 911 logo. 1984: HPD planned to re-institute a mount patrol downtown. [9] The Park Police were transferred to the Houston Police Department. 1985: HPD hired the Department's only civilian Academy Director. Under state law; Drug testing began for police applicants. 1986:
Crime. Terrorism. v. t. e. 101 is the police single non-emergency number (SNEN) in the United Kingdom (UK), which automatically connects the caller to their local police force, in a similar manner to the pre-existing 999 emergency number. [1][2] The 101 service was created to ease pressure, and abuse of the existing 999 system.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
Houston’s police chief pledged on Thursday to restore public trust in his department following revelations that more than 264,000 cases, including over 4,000 involving sexual assault, were ...
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Houston Police Chief Troy Finner speaks to the media during a news conference, Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the police department’s headquarters about the more than 264,000 cases, including more ...
Edward Alfred Thomas (September 23, 1919 – August 10, 2015) was one of the first African Americans to work as a police officer for the Houston Police Department. [1][2] He was born on September 23, 1919, in Keatchi, Louisiana, to Edward and Dora Thomas, a landowner and teacher, respectively. He attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, but ...