| Mississippi Highway Patrol | |
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| Common name | Mississippi Highway Patrol |
| Abbreviation | MHP |
| Motto | Courtesy, Service, Safety |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1938 |
| Employees | 1,030 (as of 2004)[1] |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Mississippi, US |
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| Mississippi Highway Patrol District map | |
| Size | 48,434 square miles (125,440 km2) |
| Population | 2,918,785 (2007 est.)[2] |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Jackson, Mississippi |
| Sworn members | 650 (authorized, as of 2022) [3] |
| Civilians | 495 (as of 2004) (Department of Public Safety employees) [1] |
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| Parent agency | Mississippi Department of Public Safety |
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| Stations | District |
| Airbases | 9 |
| Website | |
| Mississippi Highway Patrol website | |
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The Mississippi Highway Patrol is the highway patrol and acting state police agency for the U.S. state of Mississippi, and has law enforcement jurisdiction over the majority of the state.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol specializes in the patrol of state and federal highways throughout the state of Mississippi, and was formed in 1938 to enforce traffic laws on state and federal highways.[4] It falls under the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. Sworn officers of the Highway Patrol are known as "State Troopers" and have the power to arrest for any crime committed in their presence statewide.
- ^ a b USDOJ Statistics Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2007 Population Estimates Archived 2008-09-18 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
- ^ "State trooper addresses MHP current trooper shortage". 15 March 2022.
- ^ http://www.dps.state.ms.us/dps/dps.nsf/Divisions/hp?OpenDocument Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine", Mississippi Highway Patrol