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The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department, serving the fourth-largest city in the United States.
Houston’s police chief pledged on Thursday to restore public trust in his department following revelations that more than 264,000 cases, including over 4,000 involving sexual assault, were ...
The first constable of the then recently incorporated capital city of the Republic of Texas, Houston was elected in 1837, making him the city's first law enforcement officer. The police force itself was not established until 1841 by Houston's first marshal, Daniel Busley. There was little patrolling of the city during the next 20 years.
On January 28, 2019, in the Pecan Park area in the East End district of Houston, [1] Houston Police Department (HPD) officers initiated a no-knock raid on a house, killing the two homeowners, a husband and wife: Dennis Wayne Tuttle and Rhogena Ann Nicholas. [2] They were aged 59 and 58, respectively. [3] Five HPD officers sustained injuries. [1]
Woman fakes 133 police reports to erase millions in debts, Texas cops say. Aspen Pflughoeft. July 11, 2022 at 12:47 PM. Photo from Harris County Constable Precinct 4. The owner of a credit repair ...
Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) is an American politician, criminologist and businessman; in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston, Texas. He was re-elected twice to serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004. He has had a long career in law enforcement and academia; leading police departments in ...
September 1, 2024 at 1:37 PM. The Houston Police Department is investigating the tragic shooting of a 90-year-old Navy veteran at an independent living community in southwest Houston. The victim ...
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...