North Carolina Department of Public Safety
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| Jurisdiction | State of North Carolina |
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.
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 Department of Public Safety is broken into sections which cover a wide range of regulatory and law enforcement tasks.
The juvenile section has the following juvenile long-term commitment facilities, called "youth development centers":
Over the recommendations of the prison staff, a private maintenance contract with the Keith Corporation and the manner in which the contract was renewed resulted in an FBI investigation as reported by the Raleigh News & Observer.
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