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It depends on what department you are referring to. Municipal departments have jurisdiction within their town/city. County Sheriffs and County Police Depts have jurisdiction anywhere within their county, includng the towns and cities. The State Police have jurisdiction anywhere in the state.
Police wages vary greatly from state-to-state and even jurisdiction-to-jurisdiction. However, I know officers in smaller departments who make a whopping $8.00 an hour.
George Mason University is a branch of the University of Virgina. In most states, police departments of the state university's are actually state police officers. In that case their jurisdiction is the entire state. I know this is true in Tennessee.
Depends by state. In Connecticut for example you need to be hired by a police department first and then they send you to the police academy which is around 6 months long.
450 police departments
According to Wikipedia, there are 131 city police departments in Oregon.
There are a total of 141 police departments in the state of Florida. The largest of those is the Miami-Dade Police Department.
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No. Many books and movies portray actual police departments.
City Police only have jurisdiction within the municipality (Pasadena, TX).
A city police officer's jurisdiction covers only those streets and areas that are inside of the city limits. Typically, a local police officer cannot legally conduct police business outside of his or her jurisdiction.
contrasting the roles and functions of municipal and county police departments