Prepare for and respond to a natural or manmade disaster? But the corrections department has told them that, based on their original release dates, they are ineligible for the transition programs. Other sought-after abilities include resilience, learning from setbacks or failures, motivation, teamwork, multi-tasking, diffusing potentially volatile situations, and thinking on ones feet by quickly responding to changing situations, weighing evidence, processing information quickly, and acting decisively. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is the state agency charged with providing functions relative to the protection of life, property, and wildlife resources.