North Carolina Department of Public Safety
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety is an umbrella agency that carries out many of the state's law enforcement, emergency response and homeland security functions. The department was created in 1977 as the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. In 2012, the North Carolina Department of Correction and the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention were merged with Crime Control & Public Safety to create the new agency.[1]
The department is headed by a Secretary of Public Safety, who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and is a member of the Cabinet.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol and the North Carolina National Guard are two divisions of the department. The North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency is also a part of the Department of Public Safety. It is the most powerful police department in the state in terms of subject matter and territorial jurisdiction as ALE agents can and do arrest for all state and federal crimes and cover the entire state. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation also became part of the department in 2014.[2]
Secretaries
- J. Phil Carlton, April 1977 to December 1978
- Herbert L. Hyde, Jan. 1979 to August 1979
- Burley B. Mitchell, August 1979 to January 1982
- Heman R. Clark, Feb. 1982 to January 1985
- Joseph W. Dean, January 1985 to May 1992
- Alan V. Pugh, June 1992 to January 1993
- Thurman B. Hampton, February 1993 to September 1995
- Richard H. Moore, December 1995 to November 1999
- David E. Kelly, November 1999 to January 2001
- Bryan E. Beatty, January 2001 to January 2009
- Reuben F. Young, January 2009 - January 2013 (Secretary of Crime Control & Public Safety until 1 Jan. 2012; Secretary of Public Safety thereafter)
- Kieran Shanahan, January 2013 - July 2013
- Frank L. Perry, August 2013 - present[3]
References
- News & Observer: Crime Control as a launching pad?
- News & Observer: What does the Crime Control Secretary do?