McCraw started with the Department of Public Safety as a highway patrol officer in 1977.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw listens to a question a news conference outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Friday, May 27, 2022.
AUSTIN – Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, is retiring at the end of the year.“The greatest honor of my life is to have served as the director of the Department of Public Safety for over 15 years,” McCraw said.McCraw began with DPS in 1977 as a highway patrol officer before becoming a narcotics agent. He moved to the FBI, where he served as a special agent in charge of the San Antonio office and helped establish the bureau’s office of intelligence after the Sept.
Gov. Greg Abbott praised McCraw at the ceremony for his encyclopedic knowledge of transnational gangs and his agency’s actions to quell recent pro-Palestine protests at the University of Texas at Austin.“It has been an honor to work with Director McCraw all these years,” Abbott said. “His leadership, his flexibility to meet the changing needs of law enforcement has truly revolutionized the Texas Department of Public Safety.
McCraw faced intense scrutiny after the botched police response to the May 24, 2022, Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, including the inaction of dozens of DPS troopers who responded. Officers from multiple police agencies waited more than an hour to enter a classroom to confront and kill the gunman who shot 19 students and two teachers to death., Austin Bureau Correspondent. Philip Jankowski has covered government, politics and criminal justice in Texas for 13 years.
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