Public Safety Agencies and Organizations

Oversee and regulates driver's licenses and vehicle titles and registrations.

SCDOT provides up-to-date travel and traffic information. View live traffic cameras, road conditions, and maps.

Responsible for statewide emergency management planning and response to emergencies and disasters.

Enforces the laws governing traffic, motor vehicles, and commercial carriers.

Protects and serves the public by educating its citizens on highway safety and enforcement of laws governing traffic, motor vehicles, and commercial carriers.

Provides manpower and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies to assist with investigations on behalf of the Governor and Attorney General.

The state’s chief criminal prosecutor and legal officer.

Protects citizens by confining offenders in controlled facilities.

Treatment and rehabilitative agency for the state's juvenile offenders.

Prepares offenders for becoming productive members of the community and assists the victims of crimes, the courts, and the Parole Board.

Agency is responsible for enforcing laws about forest fires and timber transaction crime.

Protects, promotes, enhances, and nurtures the forest lands of South Carolina.

The Office of State Fire Marshal has a regulatory responsibility to ensure compliance with state fire safety regulations.

Safety belt laws, enforcement zones, online reporting, facts, and statistics.

Provides security for public officials and state government facilities.

An impartial third party who attempts to ensure that all crime victims are served justly, equitably, and fairly by South Carolina's criminal justice organizations.

Provides basic training for all law enforcement, detention, and telecommunications officers.

Evacuation routes, recommended disaster supplies, and family disaster plans, lane reversals, and more.

Information and application procedures for state constables.

Offers grants for South Carolinians to strengthen their homes against the damaging effects of high winds from hurricanes and severe storms.

A statewide DUI enforcement and public information and education campaign whose goal is to reduce alcohol-related collisions, injuries, and fatalities through a decrease in impaired driving.

Find shelters, domestic violence programs, or call for help.

Nationwide law enforcement for firearms, explosives, alcohol, and tobacco.

Emergency preparedness, travel, immigration, threats, and protection. Includes Ready.Gov, a terrorism preparation site.

Enforces controlled substance laws.

Facts, investigations, intelligence, reports, and publications.

National emergency management services.

Protects the President and Vice President, their families, heads of state, and other designated individuals and facilities.

Criminal appeals and prosecution, state government representation and legal advice, and fraud investigation.

Border security, imports, exports, and travel.

Judicial and witness security, prisoner services, and criminal asset forfeiture.