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Puerto Rico Bureau of Highway Patrol

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Common name
  
Transito P.P.R.

Superseding agency
  
Transit Bureau

Formed
  
1923

Legal personality
  
Governmental: Government agency

Operations jurisdiction*
  
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, USA

Size
  
5,324 square miles (13,790 km)

Transito, PolicĂ­a de Puerto Rico (English: Transit, Puerto Rico Police), is a specialized unit of the Puerto Rico Police, and is responsible for implementing and monitoring oriented measures for the benefit of drivers and other users of public roads, highways and primary roads in Puerto Rico. It ensures that compliance with the law, traffic rules and regulations. The Bureau has the units of Expressway, Highway Patrol, Alcohol Unit, Radar and Photometric, Metro Rail police and an office to coordinate federal proposals to meet its mission also prepare all the statistics of fatal crashes and coordinates all public or private activity taking place on public roads in Puerto Rico.

References

Puerto Rico Bureau of Highway Patrol Wikipedia