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The Georgia Department of Public Safety (GDPS) is a state body that is responsible for statewide law enforcement and public safety within the U.S. state of Georgia.The current Commissioner of the department is William W. Hitchens, who is also Colonel of the Georgia State Patrol.
The Department of Public Safety was created as Georgia citizens complained about increased traffic fatalities, crime, and a need for a larger law enforcement agency with statewide arrest powers. Georgia lawmakers decided to create the State Patrol. In 1937, Governor E.D Rivers appointed Philip H. Brewster, Sr. as its first permanent commissioner.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Georgia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 628 law enforcement agencies employing 26,551 sworn police officers, about 274 for each 100,000 residents.
ALPHARETTA, GA — Alpharetta Department of Public Safety Chief John Robison published a blog post explaining how his department trains, and what values department leaders seek in officers. "I ...
Posted Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:50 pm ET. Release, Georgia Department of Public Safety: Grady David Sanford, Jr. from Gordon County has been appointed as commander of Georgia State Patrol (GSP ...
The Georgia State Patrol’s 95th Trooper School graduated on Friday, Aug. 15 at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth after 31 weeks of intense training. The keynote address was ...
Governor Eurith D. Rivers was instrumental in the creation of the department in March 1937, when a law was passed Act 220 creating the Georgia Department of Public Safety which included the Georgia State Patrol and a plainclothes investigative division called the Division of Identification, Detection, Prevention and Investigation which became ...
Speakers at the ceremony included Gwinnett Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash, Gwinnett County Administrator Glenn Stephens, Georgia Department of Public Safety Commissioner Col. Mark McDonough ...