California Highway Patrol

California Highway Patrol (CHP) é uma agência de aplicação da lei do estado norte-americano da Califórnia. O CHP tem jurisdição sobre as patrulhas em todas as rodovias da Califórnia e também atua como a polícia estadual.[1]

Sede da CHP em Sacramento, em 2013.

Características

De acordo com dados do FBI, a California Highway Patrol é a maior agência estadual de polícia nos Estados Unidos, com mais de onze mil funcionários, dos quais 7.500 são policiais juramentados.[2] A corporação ficou famosa por causa de um seriado de TV chamado CHiPs, exibido em 6 temporadas, de 1977 a 1983 estrelado por Larry Wilcox e Erik Estrada. Era baseado nas aventuras de dois patrulheiros rodoviários em motocicletas na Califórnia.

Imagens

Ver também
  • Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
  • Alaska State Troopers
  • Arizona Rangers
  • Arkansas State Police
  • California Highway Patrol
  • Colorado Bureau of Investigation
  • Connecticut State Police
  • Delaware State Police
  • Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
  • Florida Department of Law Enforcement
  • Georgia Bureau of Investigation
  • Hawaii Department of Public Safety
  • Idaho State Police
  • Illinois State Police
  • Indiana State Police
  • Iowa Department of Public Safety
  • Kansas Bureau of Investigation
  • Kentucky State Police
  • Louisiana State Police
  • Maine State Police
  • Maryland State Police
  • Massachusetts State Police
  • Michigan State Police
  • Minnesota Department of Public Safety
  • Mississippi Highway Patrol
  • Missouri Department of Public Safety
  • Montana Department of Justice
  • Nebraska State Patrol
  • Nevada Department of Public Safety
  • New Hampshire State Police
  • New Jersey State Police
  • New Mexico State Police
  • New York State Police
  • North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
  • North Dakota Highway Patrol
  • Ohio State Highway Patrol
  • Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
  • Oregon State Police
  • Pennsylvania State Police
  • Rhode Island State Police
  • South Carolina Department of Public Safety
  • South Dakota Department of Public Safety
  • Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
  • Texas Department of Public Safety
  • Utah Department of Public Safety
  • Vermont State Police
  • Virginia State Police
  • Washington State Patrol
  • West Virginia State Police
  • Wisconsin Department of Justice
  • Wyoming Highway Patrol

Referências
  1. «About us». California Highway Patrol. Consultado em 10 de maio de 2015
  2. «Crime in the United States, 2009, Table 76, Full-time State Law Enforcement Employees by State». Federal Bureau of Investigation. Consultado em 10 de maio de 2015

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