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A highway patrol is either a Police agency created primarily for the purpose of overseeing Traffic Safety Compliance on roads and highways, such as the California Highway Patrol , or a detail within an existing local or regional police agency that is primarily concerned with such duties, such as the HWP units of Australian state police forces, or the NYPD Highway Patrol . These latter sub-units are more commonly called '''traffic police'''. Duties of highway patrols or traffic police include the following:
RELATION TO STATE POLICE Many State Police agencies are, for historical reasons, referred to as a highway patrol organization. For instance, the California Highway Patrol is actually a state police agency, meaning that it is a police body having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations. In addition to its highway patrol duties described above, it performs functions outside the normal purview of the city police or the county sheriff, such as enforcing traffic laws on state highways and interstate expressways, overseeing the security of the state capitol complex, protecting the governor, training new officers for local police forces too small to operate an academy, providing technological and scientific support services, and helping to coordinate multi-jurisdictional task force activity in serious or complicated cases. The California Highway Patrol also serves a bailiffs and courtroom deputies for certain state courts, such as the appellate courts. The fact that it is named the "California Highway Patrol" is due to the merger of the former but smaller California State Police with the latter but larger California Highway Patrol and the combination of their functions into one agency. SEE ALSO |
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