Alabama Highway Patrol

The Alabama Highway Patrol is the highway patrol agency for Alabama, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in Alabama.The Alabama Bureau of Investigation traces its history back to 1936, the year the Alabama Highway Patrol was founded, and a need for a sub-section of that organisation to serve as "special-investigators" was found. Out of the 74 who originally made up the Highway Patrol, 2 were appointed to begin the work of what would later become the Investigative and Identification Division, the precursor to the Bureau. The Division found that much of its early work consisted of providing assistance to local and federal law enforcement agencies in investigations. It also pursued crimes on its own account for the state of Alabama. Typical crimes investigated in the early years of the Division were espionage and desertion.
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