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The Houston Police Department ( HPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department, serving the fourth-largest city in the United States.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
311 (telephone number) A LinkNYC kiosk in New York City, advertising the city's 311 system. 311 is a special telephone number supported in many communities in Canada and the United States. The number provides access to non-emergency municipal services. The number format follows the N11 code for a group of short, special-purpose local numbers as ...
Police – 022; Ambulance – 033; Fire – 011 . Police – 113 . Text phone – 0800 81 12; Non-emergency police – 0900 88 44 [a] or 0343 578 844; [66] Non-emergency police (text phone) – 0900 18 44; Suicide prevention – 113; Animal emergency – 144; Child abuse – 0900 123 12 30; [a] Anti-bullying hotline – 0800 90 50 .
The first constable of the then recently incorporated capital city of the Republic of Texas, Houston was elected in 1837, making him the city's first law enforcement officer. The police force itself was not established until 1841 by Houston's first marshal, Daniel Busley. There was little patrolling of the city during the next 20 years.
A new police chief will be leading the law enforcement in the City of Houston. Chief Noe Diaz's resume includes 23 years in law enforcement and 11 years as a Texas Ranger. Diaz is a former Texas ...
N11 code. This U.S. road sign alerts highway users to the availability of 9-1-1 service. An N11 code (pronounced Enn-one-one) is a three-digit dialing code used in abbreviated dialing in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The mnemonic N stands for the digits 2 through 9 and thus the syntax stands for the codes 211, 311, 411, 511, 611 ...
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner speaks to the media during a news conference, Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the police department’s headquarters about the more than 264,000 cases, including more ...