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The California Highway Patrol ( CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assist local and county ...
September 1, 1959. ( 1959-09-01) Highway Patrol is a 156-episode action crime drama series produced for syndication from 1955 to 1959. It was "one of the most popular syndicated series in television history", [1] and it was the first American series broadcast in West Germany on that country's commercial TV channel. [2]
Murder of Cara Knott. Cara Evelyn Knott (February 11, 1966 – December 27, 1986) [2] was an American student at San Diego State University who disappeared on December 27, 1986, [3] while driving from her boyfriend's home in Escondido, California, to her parents' house in El Cajon. The following day, December 28, her car was found on a dead-end ...
Highway patrol. A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer along the San Tomas Expressway through Santa Clara, California. A highway patrol is a police unit, detail, or law enforcement agency created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways within a jurisdiction.
Larry Dee Wilcox (born August 8, 1947) is an American actor best known for his role as California Highway Patrol officer (later captain) Jonathan "Jon" Baker in the television series CHiPs, which ran from 1977 to 1983 on NBC. A Vietnam veteran, Wilcox races cars and is also a private pilot. [1]
This public knowledge of the California State Police didn't fully come to light until its merger with the California Highway Patrol when it received major state news coverage in 1995. At the time of the merger, the California State Police was the state’s oldest law enforcement agency (1887-1995 (~108 years)), a record that is still held today.
The California State Police (CSP) was a division of the California Department of General Services, and was a security police agency which merged with the California Highway Patrol in 1995; following this, the California Highway Patrol assumed security police responsibilities in addition to its highway patrol duties.
CHiPs, a television series about the California Highway Patrol "CHiPs (Space Ghost Coast to Coast)", an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast; Other arts, entertainment, and media. CHiPs, a 2017 film version of the series; Chips (literary magazine), the award-winning literary and art magazine of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School