影片對白  If you wanna serve the Commonwealth, this is your chance.

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State police of the United States

In the United States, state police are a police body unique to each U.S. state, having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations. In general, they perform functions outside the normal or the county sheriff, such as enforcing traffic laws on state highways and interstate expressways, overseeing the security of the state capitol complex, protecting the governor, training new officers for local police forces too small to operate an academy, providing technological and scientific support services, and helping to coordinate multi-jurisdictional task force activity in serious or complicated cases in those states that grant full police powers statewide. A general trend has be to bring all of these agencies under a state Department of Public Safety. Additionally they may be under several agencies, such as the Highway Patrol being under the state Department of Transportation. Some states have both a State Police and A Highway patrol, such as Arkansas and Rhode Island.

They have emerged at various times in the history of each particular state, alternately evolving from corps of mounted rangers (the term trooper coming from cavalry parlance) or being newly established as a fully motorized highway patrol.

State Police

Twenty-three U.S. states actually call their state police by the term "State Police." In this case state police are general-power law enforcement officers with statewide jurisdiction, who conduct patrols and respond to calls for service and perform all the other aforementioned duties. The State Police may be the name of the entire agency or it may fall under a Department of Public Safety. These states are: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Highway Patrol

In other states the state police are known by different names. However, most have the same jurisdiction over the entire state as the agencies that are simply called "State Police". The names are usually historical and do not necessarily describe the agency's function or jurisdiction. They may exist as part of or separate from the state police:

• State Highway Patrol (Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio);
• Highway Patrol (California, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming),
• State Patrol (Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, Washington, Wisconsin)

Other State Police agencies

• State Bureaus of Investigation (SBI) - the state's detectives.
• State Bureau of Narcotics - the state's [DEA].
• Department of Public Safety or DPS, exist in 30 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Vermont), many of which contain the State Police and in some cases the Highway Patrol.
• Motor Carrier Enforcement - another organization with many various titles and may be part of the actual State Police or Highway Patrol. Many belong the their state's Department of Transportation. Conducts vehicle inspections and enforces the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) as mandated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). It conducts safety inspections of commercial motor vehicles (primarily trucks and buses), inspects highway shipments of hazardous materials, and performs compliance reviews (safety performance audits) on motor carriers. The DPS adopts and enforces driver and vehicle safety regulations and hazardous materials regulations as part of this program.
• Marine Patrol

考考你

用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 不能只靠旁證就判定一個人有罪。

2. 讓小孩玩火柴有意義嗎？

The Departed《無間道風云》（精講之一）考考你 參考答案

Massachusetts State Police has a long tradition of excellence. Your graduation today solidifies your acceptance into one of the finest law enforcement agencies in our nation. As the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts I am confident each and every one of you will serve with distinction, honor and integrity.

馬塞諸塞州警局有著長久的優良傳統。合格畢業讓你們能夠進入我們國家最優秀的法律執行機構之一。作為馬薩諸塞聯邦的長官，我確信你們每一個人都將正直、卓越的服務于此項工作，并為之帶來榮耀。

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