Washington (State). Highway Patrol Division

found: NUCMC data from Washington State Archives for Records of the Washington State Patrol, 1921-1979(The Washington State Patrol was estab. by the Motor Vehicles Act of 1921, which provided for the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles and for the enforcement of highway and motor vehicle laws; the act provided that the director of the Dept. of Efficiency would appoint a number of highway police to enforce motor vehicle laws, rules, and regulations; in 1933 the legislature passed an act which gave the Patrol separate agency status and changed the name of the force from the Washington State Division of Highway Patrol to the Washington State Patrol)

found: LC man. auth. cd.(hdg.: Washington (State). Dept. of Efficiency. Highway Patrol Division; the Washington State Patrol has grown from its rather feeble beginning in 1921, as a division in the Dept. of Efficiency..., to become one of the most efficient law enforcement agencies in the nation)