New Hampshire State Police
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The New Hampshire State Police is a state police agency within the Department of Safety of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Police employees of the State Police are ex officio constables and have the primary role of patrolling the state highways, enforcing the laws and regulations of the highway and motor vehicles, and regulations relating to the transportation of hazardous materials. The jurisdiction of the State Police is limited to turnpikes, toll roads and interstate highways and towns or cities under 3,000 who vote not to have a police department. The state police are prohibited from acting, with certain exceptions, in towns or cities over 3,000 people.
[edit] Jurisdiction
New Hampshire RSA 106-B:15 sets out when a State Police trooper may act within a town or city having at least 3,000 people:
- when he witnesses a crime
- is in pursuit of a law violator or suspected violator
- in search of a person wanted for a crime committed outside its limits
- in search of a witness of such crime
- when traveling through such town or city
- when acting as an agent of the director of motor vehicles enforcing rules pertaining to driver licenses, registrations and the inspection of motor vehicles
- when requested to act by an official of another law enforcement agency
- when ordered by the governor
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