

Highways, Interstate Highways and all public roads in unincorporated and incorporated portions of any specific county. The agency is responsible for law enforcement on all California state routes (including all freeways and expressways), U.S.

The CHP gradually assumed increased responsibility beyond the enforcement of the State Vehicle Act and eventually merged with the smaller California State Police in 1995. It was subsequently established as a separate department with legislation signed by Governor Earl Warren in 1947. The California State Legislature originally established the California Highway Patrol as a branch of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Public Works, with legislation signed by Governor C. C. Young on August 14, 1929. California Highway Patrol can assist local and county agencies and can patrol major city streets along with local and county law enforcement, state and interstate highways and are primary law enforcement in rural parts of the state. They have jurisdiction statewide and can enforce law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The CHP has patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and are also known as the state police. The California Highway Patrol ( CHP) is a state law enforcement agency of the U.S.
