Press Releases

Secretary Frank L. Perry today announced two key appointments to the Department of Public Safety leadership team. Perry has named Ellis Boyle as Deputy Secretary and Gregory K. Baker as Commissioner of Law Enforcement, effective immediately.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory accepted the Center for Safer Schools 2013 Report from Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank L. Perry today.

Nineteen students graduated from Juvenile Justice Basic Training during a ceremony held on Friday, June 28, at the N.C. Justice Academy in Salemburg.

Secretary Kieran Shanahan has named James “J.R.” Gorham as Commissioner of Juvenile Justice, effective immediately.

Secretary Kieran J. Shanahan and leaders of the N.C. Department of Public Safety kick off a statewide school safety tour next week in eastern North Carolina, with community forums set for Edenton and Morehead City.

The Soldiers and Airmen Assistance Fund (SAAF) today announced its new specialty license plate, titled, “In God We Trust,” is available for purchase through the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles.

More than 150 U.S. law enforcement officers have been killed since 1999 after being struck by vehicles along America's highways, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

The Department of Public Safety is pleased to announce the activation of VIPER site #199 on Chunky Gal Gap in Clay County.

The juvenile identified as first name, “James” last initial “N.” who escaped yesterday during a home visit in Hickory has been apprehended and returned to secure custody at the Division of Juvenile Justice's Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center in Concord.

 

When young people are called to the office of Alison Uhlenberg, her goal is that she never sees them there again. Uhlenberg is a juvenile court counselor who makes lifechanging decisions about how the state will respond to young people who have broken the law.

Stanley Melvin, director of the Pitt Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Greenville, found a valuable mentor in his Goldsboro High school basketball coach in the early 1970s. The late Coach Norvell Lee helped Melvin learn that he has a heart for kids.

Four airmen died and two others were seriously injured when a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) equipped C-130 belonging to the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard, based here, crashed Sunday evening while fighting a woodland