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The Highway Patrol Group was established as Traffic Control Group (Trafcon) in 1955 as a response to a high-profile vehicular accident along a highway in Pampanga, now known as the MacArthur Highway. The accident which occurred on November 4, 1954, which killed House of Representatives members Gregorio Tan of Samar and Lorenzo Ziga of Albay.
Director of the PNP Highway Patrol Group Directorial Staff Chief Marcelo Garbo July 11, 2013 – December 11, 2013 Director of the Police Regional Office 7 (PRO 7) Carmelo Valmoria December 11, 2013 – July 15, 2015 Joel Pagdilao July 29, 2015 – July 3, 2016 District Director, QCPD Oscar Albayalde: July 4, 2016 – April 19, 2018
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.
The Highway Patrol are specialized units part of the Highway District with the Transportation Bureau of the New York City Police Department. [3] The Highway Patrol is primarily responsible for patrolling and maintaining traffic safety on limited-access highways within New York City. The Highway Patrol's other duties and roles include accident ...
The primary mission of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol is to ensure safe and efficient transportation on the streets and highways, reduce crime, protect against terrorism, enforce motor vehicle laws, and respond to natural and man-made disasters. The Highway Patrol is the largest division of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
As of 2007 the Patrol created a mission statement entitled "LifeStat 1.0", detailing the strategic goals for the Patrol. [5] One of the primary goals of this document was the reduction of traffic crash deaths in Ohio to one per 100 million vehicle miles traveled by the end of 2007; [ 6 ] the goal was ambitious: the rate reduced to 1.13 in 2007 ...
North Carolina for example established a DMV motor vehicle theft investigations unit in 1921 to combat a rising problem with car theft, but the state realized a need for a larger, uniformed highway patrol agency to solely enforce traffic laws statewide. Local NC sheriffs did not have the personnel, resources or training to do so during that era ...
The position of "Commissioner of Public Safety" was first created in 1938, with the establishment of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. [4]The Department expanded in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Narcotics was established in 1971 to conduct specialized enforcement and carry out investigations into the abuse, trafficking, manufacturing, and mishandling of controlled substances. [5]