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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...
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  • responsible for the issuing and revocation of Texas driver licenses and identification cards. The Highway Patrol Division is the unit of the department most...
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    A highway patrol is a police unit, detail, or law enforcement agency created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance...
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    activities and criminal investigations. In general, state police officers or highway patrol officers, known as state troopers, perform functions that do not fall...
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  • Texas Highway Patrol Association and Museum (THPA or THPM) is a charity group with its administrative offices in Austin, Texas. It maintains a museum in...
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  • patrol boats are a six-boat class of patrol gunboats, operated by the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Highway Patrol Division for patrolling the...
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  • The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) is the State Patrol organization for the U.S. state of Tennessee, responsible for enforcing all federal and state laws...
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    sworn members of a state law enforcement agency, state police, state highway patrol, or state department of public safety, even though those officers may...
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  • is a retired American actress, best known for her role as former Texas Highway Patrol helicopter pilot Caitlin O'Shannessy in the 1984-1987 CBS action...
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  • The Texas Capitol Police (or properly, Region VII - Capitol of the Texas Highway Patrol) provide law enforcement and security for state property within...
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    the sheriff's office, along with the Texas Highway Patrol, for law-enforcement duties. In December 2012, Texas officials issued a statewide bulletin...
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    The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is a major state law enforcement agency of the government of Oklahoma. A division of the Oklahoma Department of Public...
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    Frank Hamer (category Texas sheriffs)
    the Texas prison system. Simmons persuaded Hamer to hunt down the Barrow Gang. Hamer was commissioned as an officer of the Texas Highway Patrol, then...
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    : A1  The Texas Highway Patrol also stopped traffic on both sides of the interstate under the expectation that the tornado would cross the highway; it ultimately...
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  • in the Houston region of Texas on October 11, 1983. Moreno shot and killed his wife, brother-in-law, a Texas Highway Patrol trooper, and three strangers...
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  • Ronald Ray Howard (category 21st-century executions by Texas)
    by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Texas. He was convicted of the shooting death of Texas Highway Patrol Trooper Bill Davidson after Howard was stopped...
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    consultants recommended merging the Rangers with the Texas Highway Patrol under a new agency called the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). This change...
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    Kingdom  United States US Armed Forces Texas Highway Patrol: 2 Barrett rifles are in each Davis-class patrol boat  Yemen Afghan Mujahideen: A number...
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    arrested by Texas Highway Patrol Corporal Bryan Henry and Texas Ranger Steven Rayburn in the parking lot of the Cotton Patch Café in Lufkin, Texas, on the...
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  • The United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border. The...
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    of 2,6-diphenylphenol. It is mostly known by its trademark Tenax. Texas Highway patrol has had a recent rise in icllit drug seizures. Poly(2,6-diphenylphenylene...
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    department. At the time, the Presidio County Sheriff's Department and Texas Highway Patrol provided law enforcement for the city, as well as the county as a...
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    2013-11-02. Retrieved 2012-05-14. Cannon, Dan (13 April 2014). "Texas Highway Patrol Dropping SIG Pistols in .357 SIG for S&W Pistols in 9mm". gunssavelives...
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    October 17, 2016. "Patrolman Hollie Lamar Tull, Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol, Texas". The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP). Archived...
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    nearby. The Texas Highway Patrol also stopped traffic on both sides of the interstate under the expectation that the tornado would cross the highway; it ultimately...
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    2015 Waco shootout (category 2015 in Texas)
    enforcement, which included 18 Waco Police Department officers and four Texas Highway Patrol troopers, had gathered to monitor the restaurant and meeting from...
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    Bonnie and Clyde (category Burials in Texas)
    sheriff of Bienville Parish in 1940. Officials of the Texas Rangers, Texas Highway Patrol, and Texas Department of Public Safety honored the memory of patrolman...
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    States: U.S. Army U.S. Air Force Security Forces Texas Highway Patrol 5 mounted on each Davis-class patrol boat  Ukraine: Unspecified number received during...
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    part of the U.S. state of Texas. The highway's northern (eastern) terminus is about 50 miles (80 km) south of San Antonio, Texas, between Devine and Pearsall...
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