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| | U.S. Police Agency Structure and Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | States also have special agencies or task forces separate from their state police or highway patrol; counties may have railroad or tribal police; and metropolitan cities may have special port, transit, causeway, housing, school, and/or capitol police. |
 | | In other states (Michigan for example), a state police agency may be assigned to a single city or county, and for all practical purposes, is a local police agency. |
 | | Some of the first State Police agencies were the Texas Rangers (1835), the Colorado Mounted Rangers (1861), the PA Capitol Police (1895), the Arizona Rangers (1901), the New Mexico Mounted Police (1905), but the Pennsylvania Constabulary (1905) are usually recognized in most textbooks as the first full-service, non-volunteer agency. |
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