New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness

About

This Office has one shared focus – strengthening our state – through a partnership with individual citizens, the private sector, and state and local partners – in the face of many threats and hazards from terrorists to natural disasters.

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Who We Are:

The Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness is an office created by Executive Order 5 in March of 2006 after a bi-partisan Homeland Security and Public Safety Transition Policy Group submitted their recommendations to the incoming Governor.

The office is led by Acting Director Jared Maples and comprised of four Divisions: Division of Intelligence, Division of Policy and Planning, Division of Cybersecurity and Division of Administration with twelve bureaus. The Office is primarily housed in Hamilton with a satellite office in Newark.

The Office is designated as the State Administrative Agency (SAA) for all federal homeland security and preparedness funding.

Mission

Executive Order #5 defines OHSP’s mission as being responsible “to administer, coordinate, lead, and supervise New Jersey's counter-terrorism and preparedness efforts.” The executive order also sets the office’s goal as the coordination of “emergency response efforts across all levels of government, law enforcement, emergency management, nonprofit organizations, other jurisdictions, and the private sector, to protect the people of New Jersey.”

Vision Statement
A state prepared to prevent and/or mitigate to the fullest extent possible, the spectrum of destructive consequences resulting from catastrophic events and emergencies that have the potential to harm our citizens and critical assets within our nation and state.