Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet Louisiana Department of Public Safety Maine Department of Public Safety Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security Minnesota Department of Public Safety Missouri Department of Public Safety Mississippi Department of Public Safety New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety New Hampshire Department of Safety New Mexico Department of Public Safety Nevada Department of Public Safety North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety North Dakota Department of Public Safety Ohio Department of Public Safety Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety Rhode Island Department of Public Safety South Carolina Department of Public Safety South Dakota Department of Safety Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Texas Department of Public Safety Utah Department of Public Safety Vermont Department of Public Safety Virginia Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Security West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety Local level Many local jurisdictions (cities and counties), and special districts (schools and hospitals) have the umbrella configuration described above, in which the DPS is simply a joint administration of several distinct agencies. They may share administrative support staff and back-office functions, but sworn personnel remain specialized and have particular responsibilities (that is, the police continue to arrest people and the firefighters put out fires). The DPS of Cobb County, Georgia is one example. However, a minority of jurisdictions have departments of public safety which have primary and direct responsibility for all emergencies. In these unusual organizations, all full-time sworn personnel are cross-trained as police officers, firefighters and EMTs, and can respond to emergencies in any capacity. Although it is more expensive to hire, train and retain such personnel, they have a clear advantage in terms of their flexibility. They can respond as first responders to many rapidly evolving situations rather than waiting for the arrival of other specialized personnel. This configuration was more widely popular in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, but has since gone out of style because relatively few cities have been able to execute it successfully because of manpower limitations in handling major incidents. In a few California cities (the San Gabriel Valley city of Duarte, for example), the department of public safety usually is restricted to code enforcement officers or animal control service agents (especially when