(a) The director shall create divisions within the Department of Public Safety as shall be necessary. The divisions shall include all of the following:
- (1) An administrative division.
- (2) A highway patrol division.
- (3) A driver’s license division.
- (4) A service division.
- (5) An investigative division, to be named the Alabama Bureau of Investigation.
- (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after July 1, 2006, any person employed by the Department of Public Safety as a law enforcement officer or a trainee to be a law enforcement officer shall be 18 years of age or older.
(Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §3; Act 2006-528, p. 1223, §1.)