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According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 48 law enforcement agencies employing 2,828 sworn police officers, about 268 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
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According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 48 law enforcement agencies employing 2,828 sworn police officers, about 268 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
In the United States, the state police is a police body unique to each U.S. state, having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations. In general, state police officers or highway patrol officers, known as state troopers, perform functions that do not fall within the jurisdiction of a county’s sheriff, such as enforcing traffic laws on state highways and interstates, overseeing security of state capitol complexes, protecting governors, training new officers for local police forces too small to operate an academy and providing technological and scientific services. They also support local police and help to coordinate multi-jurisdictional task force activity in serious or complicated cases in states that grant full police powers statewide.
