Sheriff's Office Outlook for 2016
The Tom Green County Sheriff's Office is looking forward to a rewarding 2016 as a year of greater accomplishments and success in carrying out our duties and responsibilities in service to our citizens. We had a very successful year in 2015 and want to carry that forward into 2016. We have two new exciting projects that we are currently working on.
The Sheriff's Office has embarked upon a project to develop and publish a new web site to better serve our citizens. We expect this to be on-line by June of 2016. As your Sheriff, I take seriously our mission to provide quality law enforcement services to our citizens and visitors in the most professional, open and ethical manner possible. As the Sheriff, I recognize that no law enforcement agency can operate at its greatest potential without the supportive input from the citizen it serves. I want to leverage today's technology to keep our community informed, because I believe that an informed public is a safer public. I actively solicit and encourage the cooperation of all citizens to assist the Sheriff's Office by communicating critical information through this web site or through common means of communication to assist us in keeping our community a safer place to live, work and raise a family. By sharing information from the Sheriff's Office to our citizens and through the information we receive from our citizens, we can reduce and limit the opportunities for crime to occur and bring justice to those that violate the law. I hope that you find the Tom Green County Sheriff's Office website insightful, useful, and that it provides you with adequate information to keep you informed of the services that are available to you.
In 2016, we will be making big strides in solutions to correcting critical issues concerning the Tom Green County's Detention Facility. We expect to break ground on a new detention facility sometime early 2017. This will be the largest construction project undertaken by the county since the current courthouse was built in the 1920s. The county commissioners have been good stewards of the taxpayer's money and have put the county in a great position to be able to undertake this project with no new or additional taxes. The facility has been designed to provide the county with a 50 to 75 year solution to our detention problems. This was a critical component of our plan since a typical detention facility is normally only serviceable for 25 to 30 years due to the extreme use it receives. The facility has been designed to provide a better environment for both my staff who is sentenced to a career in this facility and the inmates who are there for a much shorter time. In addition to the normal detention infrastructure, the facility has been designed to provide accommodations for mental health inmates, medical facilities, and seventeen-year old inmates who are now a special class of inmate. It is designed under a direct supervision model that has proven to be one of the most successful programs in the correctional field.
The Tom Green County Sheriff's Office motto is: "Service, Integrity, Excellence: Our Commitment without Compromise". We are dedicated to upholding our motto in 2016.
