AUSTIN - A ceremony will be held to swear in the new leader of the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday. Lt. Col. Freeman F. Martin will be sworn in as the new director at DPS headquarters in Austin. Martin replaces Colonel Steven McCraw, who retired after 15 years as the director of DPS.

Beginning as a Trooper to becoming a Texas Ranger to eventually becoming the Senior Deputy Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, he has the knowledge at every leve

Colonel Freeman Martin, a former Texas Ranger and deputy director of the DPS, was sworn in by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in a change of command ceremony outside the Texas DPS headquarters in Austin. Martin is replacing Col. Steve McCraw, who announced last summer he was retiring after 15 years.