The Ohio Department of Public Safety (DPS) provides homeland security efforts through increasing patrols, facilitating state and national security strategies and efforts, enhancing information and intelligence sharing, protecting critical infrastructure and key resources, and monitoring state property as a component of the Safer Ohio Initiativ

The public's most frequent interaction with the department is through its two largest divisions: the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV).