Department of Public Safety records 1930-1931, 1934-2000, undated

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Department of Public Safety records 1930-1931, 1934-2000, undated

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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is the state police agency, charged with enforcing laws, preserving order, and protecting the rights, privileges, property, and well-being of Texas citizens. These records document the functions of DPS in crime suppression and control, motor vehicle highway transportation and management, and disaster and emergency activities. Types of records include correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, clippings, testimony, affidavits, warrants and orders, indictments, audio recordings, photographs, films, press releases, statistics, manuals, rosters, minutes, notices, speeches, publications, newsletters, printed material, organizational charts, memorabilia, and a scrapbook. Records date 1930-1931, 1934-2000, and undated. Included are Public Safety Commission minutes, central files of the senior ranger captains of the Texas Rangers headquartered in Austin, Criminal Law Enforcement Division investigation files, training records, files of the Legal Services Section, records of the Public Information Office, and Office of Defense and Disaster Relief records.

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In 1935, the 44th Legislature (Senate Bill 146, Regular Session), responding to recommendations made in 1933 by the Joint Legislative Committee on Organization and Economy, created the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for the purpose of placing under a single jurisdiction the state's functions in crime prevention and traffic control programs. The original Department was composed of the Texas Rangers, removed from the Adjutant General's Department; the State Highway Patrol, ta...

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