Oklahoma Highway Safety Office

Oklahoma Highway Safety Office
Agency overview
Formed	1967
Headquarters	3223 N. Lincoln Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Employees	26 (part of DPS)
Annual budget	$10.9 million (part of DPS)
Minister responsible	Michael C. Thompson, Secretary of Safety and Security
Agency executive	J. Kevin Behens, Interim Director
Parent agency	Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS)
Website
Oklahoma Highway Safety Office

The Oklahoma Highway Safety Office (OHSO) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma responsible for promoting highway safety. OHSO is responsible for developing an annual statewide Highway Safety Plan to decrease fatalities and injuries on Oklahoma roadways. OHSO is a division of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.

OHSO is supervised by the Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security, who is the Governor's Representative for Highway Safety, and under the direct administrative control of the Director of Highway Safety, who is a career civil servant of the State government. The current Highway Safety Representative is Michael C. Thompson and the current Interim Highway Safety Director is J. Kevin Behens.

The Highway Safety Office was created in 1967 during the term of Governor Dewey F. Bartlett.

Leadership

The Highway Safety Office located within the Highway Patrol Division of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety. As such, the Office is under the superivision of the Secretary of Safety and Security, the Commissioner of Public Safety, and the Chief of the Highway Patrol.

Though the Director of OHSO is not a commissioned member of the Patrol, the Director is treated as a Captain of the Patrol, both in responsibilities and in pay grade.

Overview

OHSO is funded through grants from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Most programs and activities of OHSO fall into the areas of traffic safety education, training, and enforcement enhancement.

Divisions

• Governor's Representative for Highway Safety
  • Director of Highway Safety
    • Assistant Director
      • Program Management Division
      • Data Management Division
      • Financial Management Division

See also

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

External links

• Oklahoma Highway Safety Office official website