Throughout the training, trainees learned everything from penal codes to pursuit driving to the use of force. The Joint Field Training Exercise includes dozens of scenarios they could encounter in the field.

The Department of Public Safety will graduate 130 new troopers this month. We rode along as they completed their final exercises.

Texas Department of Public Safety Class B-2024 held their Joint Field Training Exercise at the DPS Training Academy. This marks the end of a rigorous 30-week training program.

Freeman Martin was sworn in by Gov. Greg Abbott as the agency’s 14th director. He worked his way up from Highway Patrol trooper in 1990.

Colonel Freeman Martin was sworn in Monday morning as the first Texas Ranger to lead the law enforcement agency.

Martin is the first Texas Ranger to ascend to the director role. Family and friends are mourning Soren Dixon, Jack Nelson and Krysta Tsukahara, all college students who graduated from Piedmont High School in 2023.