Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw says he's retiring at the end of the year after 15 years leading the department.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw says he's retiring at the end of the year after 15 years leading the department."The greatest honor of my life is to have served as the director of the Department of Public Safety for 15 years," McCraw said."The governor has been very gracious has authorized and approved my retirement at the end of the year."Sign up for NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter.
While addressing the graduating class of state troopers, the governor complimented McCraw on his career and commitment to law and order and reminisced about how they often collaborated on responses involving law enforcement. "His tactical response to the largest influx ever to illegal border crossings. He was able to organize DPS troopers and to be able to achieve DPS troopers arresting more than 45,000 criminals who crossed the border, apprehend more than 500,000 immigrants and seize enough deadly fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in the United States and Mexico combined," Abbott said.
In recent years, McCraw had drawn scrutiny for the ineffective response by troopers to the Uvalde shooting and the agency's role in Abbott's Operation Lone Star crackdown along the Texas border.
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