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The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) is the state police force of Pennsylvania, responsible for statewide law enforcement. It was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, in response to the private police forces used by mine and mill owners to stop worker strikes (the Coal and Iron Police) and the inability or refusal of local police or sheriffs offices to enforce the law. The department became the first uniformed police organization of its kind in the United States and a model for other state police agencies throughout the nation.〔(History of the Pennsylvania State Police ) Pennsylvania State Police - Historical, Educational and Memorial Center. Retrieved 12-08-2014.〕 PSP enlisted members are referred to as "troopers". As of 2015, it has 4,719 state troopers and more than 1,850 civilian support staff.〔(About the Pennsylvania State Police ) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 12-08-2014.〕 The state police academy is located in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The current acting commissioner is Colonel Tyree C. Blocker, nominated by Governor Tom Wolf, and is pending confirmation by the Pennsylvania Senate.〔 Colonel Blocker replaced Marcus Brown who failed to secure confirmation by the State's legislature, and recently resigned.〔http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-p-pa-wolf-new-state-police-commissioner-2-20150803-story.html〕 ==Duties== The PSP's duties include patrolling all state and federal highways across Pennsylvania, enforcing the (Pennsylvania Vehicle Code ), overseeing the state's automobile inspection program, enforcing the state's commercial vehicle safety regulations, and providing the full range of police protection for municipalities without full-time local police departments. The PSP patrols more than half of the state's 2,565 municipalities and the bulk of its rural areas, as the sheriffs in Pennsylvania have traditionally performed their court related services and only over the last several decades have begun to exercise their common law authority to enforce state law. The PSP provides primary service for 27% of the Commonwealth's population, accounting for over 60% of the Commonwealth municipalities. This constitutes 85% of the Commonwealth's land area and 66% of the Commonwealth's highways. This is accomplished with only 19% of the police officers in the Commonwealth.〔http://psta.org/images/about_map.gif〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pennsylvania State Troopers Association - About )〕 The PSP's Bureau of Forensic Services provides crime lab services for criminal investigations. A special unit of the PSP act as bodyguards for the Governor of Pennsylvania and certain other state officials. The PSP also temporarily patrolled the state's 28 airports and five nuclear power plants in the months following the September 11 attacks. However, the PSP still conducts security checks of all of the Delaware River Bridges along the PA/NJ border, in agreement with the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. The PSP administers the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS), which is responsible for providing background checks in firearms purchases statewide. The PSP are embroiled in a controversy concerning the maintaining of a firearms "registry" contrary to both Federal and State laws. The issue is being addressed in the courts and the legislature. The PSP also administers the PATCH (Pennsylvania Access To Criminal History) background-check database and the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pennsylvania State Police」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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