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A highway patrol is either a police unit created primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways, or a detail within an existing local or regional police agency that is primarily concerned with such duties. 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.
Highway Patrol is a syndication action crime drama series produced from 1955 to 1959.
Highway Patrol is an Australian factual television series screened on the Seven Network that premiered on 21 September 2009.
Highway Patrol is a 1938 American action film, directed by Charles C. Coleman. It stars Robert Paige, Julie Bishop, and Robert Middlemass.
Usage examples of "highway patrol".
But when the outlaws move in a mass, under the watchful eye of the Highway Patrol, they maintain a legal pace that would do pride to a U.
There were three cars and at least ten cops, with a white-haired Highway Patrol captain in charge.
I didn't want to keep traveling while the sun was up because we might be spotted by a Kansas Highway Patrol airplane, and if we had to stop on the prairie, we were as good as caught.
Mary's heart jumped, and she started to put her foot to the brake, but the highway patrol car pulled past her and disappeared in the swirling rain and mist ahead.
The woods were swarming with people, with medics and deputies and highway patrol officers, with onlookers, even some reporters already there.
He saw a highway patrol cruiser idling at an angle on the side of the road.
He wondered how difficult it would be to transfer from the highway patrol to the Game and Fish.
She hoped to spot a sign for a highway patrol depot, where she could seek help, but none appeared.
Chief Crawford radioed the state highway patrol while his deputy continued to watch the object.
The highway patrol had a plane, and Crawford reasoned that they would be more able to do something about the strange light in the sky than he would.
Captain Myers came across from the protection of his Highway Patrol car.
Farther east the winds kicked up, and the Colorado Highway Patrol closed off the smaller county roads due to blizzard conditions.