No. State police are a little different (but of course will vary from state to state in their own differences). Their chain of command is different. There’s nobody in between the Sheriff and (usually) the state’s Attny General or whatever the title of the top lawman of the state is.
The state police do not grant or deny feds from being in the state, I have never seen that the feds have to get THEIR permission to be in the state. They do have to get the sheriff’s permission to be in the county they want to conduct operations in.
Thanks,
I noticed that the Katrina\ Rita thing was coordinated by the state police when I was called up.