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Canada Border Services Agency

Since the September 11 attacks against the United States, Canada's border operations have placed a dramatic new emphasis on national security and public safety.

Linda Ichiyama

Representative Ichiyama currently serves as the vice chair of the Higher Education Committee and as a member of the Transportation, Education, Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety committees.


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9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor

The 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor is a decoration of the government of the United States, created specifically to honor the 442 public safety officers who were killed in the line of duty during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the empty wing of The Pentagon.

Alabama Department of Public Safety

On January 17, 2011, Hugh B. McCall was appointed to the position of Colonel of the Alabama Department of Public Safety by Governor Robert J. Bentley, making him the first African-American to head the agency.

Bertrand Barère

Appointed to the Committee of Public Safety on 7 April 1793, he became involved in foreign affairs, and joined Robespierre's faction, the Jacobin Club, playing an important part in the second Committee of Public Safety after 17 July 1793.

Brian Moran

Previous Secretaries of Public Safety have included former Virginia state Attorney General Jerry Kilgore and John W. Marshall, the son of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Broadband universal service

U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned: “one key to strengthening education, entrepreneurship, and innovation in communities… is to harness the full power of the Internet, and that means faster and more widely available broadband.” (Obama, 2009) The government claimed widespread broadband access is critical for global competitiveness, economic development, national security, public safety, job creation, civic engagement, etc.

Brookfield Office Properties

On October 11, 2011, Richard Clark, the company's chief executive officer, sent a letter to New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly requesting to "clear the park" as its use by Occupy Wall Street "violates the law, violates the rules of the Park, deprives the community of its rights of quiet enjoyment to the Park, and creates health and public safety issues".

C. Richard Fiore

Fiore, the Chairman of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee, got in some trouble during his first term in the Assembly when he reportedly asked to cancel a hearing on organized crime under pressure from one of the state's most powerful mob bosses, Gerardo Catena.

Calvin L. Rampton

The Calvin L. Rampton Complex in Taylorsville, which houses the Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Department of Public Safety, was named in his honor.

City of London and Westminster South by-election, 1977

Bill Boaks stood under the title "Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident".

Cleveland Division of Police

When legendary Prohibition-era crimefighter Eliot Ness became director of public safety in 1935, he abolished the existing system of precincts and reorganized the city into police districts, with each commanded by a captain.

Dan Whitehurst

Youngest Mayor of a major city in the U.S.; Board Member, National League of Cities; Chair, Public Safety Committee, U.S. Conference of Mayors; President, Mayors and Councilmembers Department, League of California Cities and after his post mayor administration he did other business over the year he ran for mayor election in 2000 but lost to Alan Autry.

DJ Pup Dawg

The Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s Summer Soccer Event is just one of the many events Pup has participated in which brings city kids together with other public safety officials for a day of safe, healthy, team-oriented fun.

Elena Miller

Claiming to have resigned as a spy, she applied to return to Canada, but this request was denied by Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan.

Gary Reams

He debated Democrat Tim Kaine on public television, persistently linking every question to the marijuana issue, which he regarded as relevant to all other political issues, including taxes, law enforcement, the environment, foreign policy, and public safety.

Greg Coleman

Currently, he is a Manager of National Public Safety Markets for Harris Corporation - Assured Communications, a communications equipment company.

H. Wayne Light

During 1999, Light assisted law enforcement in several situations and was named "Public Safety Officer of the year" by California Senator Milton Marks.

Henry William de Saussure

His opinions were highly critical of the summary abridgment of rights of the accused during the Denmark Vesey trials, purportedly in the name of public safety.

John W. Marshall

John W. Marshall served as Secretary of Public Safety in the Cabinet of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine from 2006 to 2010, and Governor Mark Warner from 2002 to 2006.

Judith Rodin

She encouraged revitalization in University City and West Philadelphia through public safety; the establishment of Wharton School alliances for small businesses; the development of buildings and streetscapes that turned outward to the community; and the establishment of a university-led partnership school, the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School.

Los Angeles General Services Police

A peace officer component was created in the late 1980s and reorganized in 2003 when Los Angeles City Council members Wendy Gruel and Jack Weiss proposed to create the Office of Public Safety by merging the many city security services (Library Security, City Park Rangers and General Services Police) into one centralized division of the Department of General Services.

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Michael Voudouris

During the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, he served as a public safety official for which he earned the AHEPA Medal of Freedom the following year.

Mike Krusee

He was pulled over by a Texas Department of Public Safety officer after driving his black BMW because his personalized license plate had expired in December 2007.

Mowbray Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham

His first wife, Hungarian-born Maria Malvina Gertler was under suspicion by MI5 - and in fact was interned for three months in 1941 on the grounds that she was involved in the "preparation of acts prejudicial to the public safety or the defence of the realm" and held in Holloway prison.

Municipal Guards

The former Brazilian Minister of Justice and elected governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Mr. Tarso Genro, asked for them to be given more jurisdiction for their operatives, and especially for their official recognition by Brazil as public safety workers.

National Public Safety Commission

The National Public Safety Commission is the policy making and oversight body of the national police forces in Japan and South Korea.

New York State Route 383

Past the bridge, the highway enters downtown, where it passes the City of Rochester Public Safety Building and the Blue Cross Arena before terminating at a junction with East Broad Street (NY 31).

Nexus Hawk

Incorporates 2 USB and 4 PCI-M slots to accommodate future networks such as WiMAX and Public Safety Band), accepts ExpressCard 34mm air cards, PCMCIA CardBus air cards and USB air cards via adapter, Secure Remote Configuration Management, Built in IPsec and OpenVPN and pass through security features, FIPS140-2 SSL Certified Module.

Passaic County Community College

Non-credit continuing education courses offered at the Public Safety Academy include Emergency Medical Technician, Fire Inspector and Fire Official courses, Uniform Construction Code courses, and Commercial driver's license training.

Philippine Board of Nursing

# Ensure public safety by administering the Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam (PNLE) to graduates of nursing schools prior to practice of Registered Nursing in the Philippines.

Ponitz Career Technology Center

Health and Education including Dental Assisting, Medical Assisiting, Biotechnology, Public Safety, and STEM Academy

Public Order Ordinance

The Secretary for Security Peter Lai moved an amendment to make it more explicit that the Commission of Police would exercise such power only if "he reasonably considers it to be necessary to prevent an imminent threat to public safety or public order".

Public Safety Canada

The department was created to have a single entity with responsibility for ensuring public safety in Canada and is a direct result of lessons learned from the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor

(In the end, however, the 442 public safety officers killed at World Trade Center and The Pentagon that day were awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor, a similar but separate award.)

Rampart Search and Rescue

Their Explorer post 1754 of the Learning for Life program with the Boy Scouts of America train alongside the adult members in all aspects of search and rescue and public safety.

Range safety

For launches from the Eastern Range, which includes Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Mission Flight Control Officer (MFCO) is responsible for ensuring public safety from the vehicle during its flight up to orbital insertion, or, in the event that the launch is of a ballistic type, until all pieces have fallen safely to Earth.

Rhode Island Department of Public Safety

The Inaugural Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety was Colonel Brendan Doherty.

Ruben Grijalva

Previously while serving as a Public Safety Officer with the City of Sunnyvale, Grijalva successfully negotiated the surrender of mass murderer Richard Farley in the ESL shootings, an event which triggered anti-stalking laws nationwide.

Secure Communities and administrative immigration policies

An investigation conducted by Chip Mitchell and other Chicago WBEZ reporters failed to substantiate the claim that inmates freed because of the Cook County detainer ordinance endanger the public more than other former inmates do, and that therefore the ordinance undermines public safety in the County.

Tamika Huston

The investigation’s biggest break came when the Spartanburg Public Safety Department discovered that a key found in the Honda had been matched to an apartment unit located at the Fremont School Apartment complex and blood evidence found in that Spartanburg apartment matched Tamika Huston’s DNA.

The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Trusts have worked closely with the Vera Institute of Justice on issues related to state correction policies in the public safety performance project.

WellMed Medical Management, Inc.

Established in 2006, the WellMed Charitable Foundation is a Non-profit organization in accordance with 501(c)3, a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code that specifically corresponds with organizations that fit these descriptions: Religious, Educational, Charitable, Scientific, Literary, Testing for Public Safety, to Foster National or International Amateur Sports Competition, or Prevention of Cruelty to Children or Animals Organizations.

Wildlife Services

It works with the civil and military aviation community, specifically airports, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to minimize wildlife strikes to aircraft and protect public safety.