Mayor Sylvester Turner selected George T. Buenik, a retired Houston Police Department Executive Assistant Chief and chairman of the 2017 Houston Super Bowl Public Safety Committee, to serve as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security in February 2018.
The divisions within the Mayor's Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security include Homeland Security, the Office of Emergency Management, the Houston Emergency Center and Houston Crackdown.
The Mayor's Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security assists the City in its preparedness activities to prevent, protect from, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural disasters or major emergencies. Also, through the Houston Emergency Center division, the Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security ensures that residents' calls for police, fire, and emergency medical services are received, processed, and dispatched as quickly and accurately as possible.
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