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  2. List of law enforcement agencies in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Texas Attorney General. Texas Comptroller - Criminal Investigation Division (State Police) Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (regulatory agency) Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Texas Department of Insurance. State Fire Marshal's Office. Fraud Unit.

  3. Texas Highway Patrol - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Texas State Police - Wikipedia

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    Badge of a TSP policeman, with badge number 35. The Texas State Police ( TSP) is a defunct 19th century law enforcement agency that was created following the Civil War by order of Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis. The TSP worked primarily against racially based crimes in Texas, and included black policemen.

  5. Texas Department of Public Safety - Wikipedia

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    Four bureaus—Administration, State Police, Rangers, and Fire Prevention—were suggested to be created with the implementation of the new force. The findings of Griffenhagen and Associates were ultimately unpopular across the state, and the Texas Senate created a committee to conduct its own survey of the State's law enforcement. As a result ...

  6. Texas Ranger Division - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Ranger Division, also known as the Texas Rangers and also known as Diablos Tejanos ( Spanish for 'Texan Devils'), [4] is an investigative law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Texas, based in the capital city Austin. In the time since its creation, the Texas Rangers have investigated crimes ranging ...

  7. List of Texas state agencies - Wikipedia

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    Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Texas Animal Health Commission. Texas Apiary Inspection Service. Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board. Texas Attorney General. Texas Board of Architectural Examiners. Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Texas Board of Nursing. Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.

  8. State police (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The State Highway Patrol was merged with the State Police on June 29, 1937. The Texas State Police was formed during the administration of Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis on July 22, 1870, to combat crime associated with Reconstruction statewide in Texas. It worked primarily against racially based crimes, and included black police officers ...

  9. List of shootings in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dallas. November 22, 1963. 2. While traveling in an open car, President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, who then murdered J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who had spotted him in a local neighborhood. Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas. November 24, 1963.