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Highway patrol
Police unit / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Highway patrol (disambiguation).
A highway patrol is a police unit, detail, or law enforcement agency created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways within a jurisdiction. They are also referred to in many countries as traffic police, although in other countries this term is more commonly used to refer to foot officers on point duty who control traffic at junctions.
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