Montague County Sheriffs Office only has a Sheriff, Chief Deputy and four deputies.

6 total deputies to investigate all crimes, patrol, answer calls, traffic control, arrest people, do their reports, serve civil papers, speak with citizens about questions, attend public functions (rodeo, school, games, etc), go to court to testify, traffic stops, accidents, assist other agencies, put up loose livestock, go to burglary alarms, handle evidence and take to labs if necessary (far away from montague), domestics, deal with drunks at the lake, book in inmates, deal with inmates in the jail and all other things that you wouldnt think of.

When do these guys sleep? When do they get a day off? Do they get vacation. Do they even get to be home for christmas when the normal drunk is acting up?

I listen to so many people complain about deputies not doing their job. It makes me sick. Dow do you expect 6 TOTAL deputies including Sheriff to be on top of everything and make 20,000 citizens happy. Not counting people traveling through the county.

How many more deputies do we need to be caught up? The way I see it, give these guys a LARGER pay increase or add several more deputies.

It is "BS" to sqeak by everyday for years with very few deputies to keep us safe. It scares me to know that only one deputy is on at night. How lucky is that guy? That is not right in my opinion. If he gets hurt, I would sue if I was him or his family for not having the equipment or backup he needs to do his job.

Have you been burglarized but have no luck having your suspect being caught? Welcome to the club. How can these guys search for your suspect when they have to put up a cow or take another service call on the other side of the county.

How would you feel if you were being assaulted by a crazy nutcase and you live in Sunset, but your deputy is responding from Spanish Fort. You may die. Instead of working an assault, that deputy may be working a murder. How would you feel.

If you don't voice your opinion, then dont complain when you become the victim. There is a new victim everyday and only 20,000 citizens...your day is coming whether you like it or not. You may be the tough guy with a gun. Well how does that protect your property from being stolen when you are at work? Oh you have an audible alarm system...Good, at least that only gives the criminal a 30 minute window to finsih his job at stealing your vaulables or maybe kidnap your kids.

I am tired of the lack of man power. If you dont want to become the victim, vote here and talk with your commissioners. They control how many deputies we have. The sheriff does not control this. Thes sheriff does a great job and so do his deputies with what little they have. Hats off to our sheriffs office.

Lets all hear what you have to say. You are important and your voice is more important.

Don't forget there are also Constables, with pretty much every power that the Sheriff has, plus a few.

Per Texas law, Constables have to be licensed peace officers, or obtain their license within 270 days of taking office... in other words, they're duty-bound to get off their keesters and do the job they were elected for.

That makes at least 10 county LEO's. Not too shabby, but it could be better.

There does need to be at least 2 deputies on duty at a time, there's just no way one guy can cover all that land area (especially while hanging out at Allsup's all night).

"Don't forget there are also Constables, with pretty much every power that the Sheriff has, plus a few."

Hah! Don't wait on Conway to save you.

NotWoW wrote:

Don't forget there are also Constables, with pretty much every power that the Sheriff has, plus a few.
Per Texas law, Constables have to be licensed peace officers, or obtain their license within 270 days of taking office... in other words, they're duty-bound to get off their keesters and do the job they were elected for.
That makes at least 10 county LEO's. Not too shabby, but it could be better.
There does need to be at least 2 deputies on duty at a time, there's just no way one guy can cover all that land area (especially while hanging out at Allsup's all night).

LOL CONSTABLES, YEA RIGHT, we need a lot more deputies in this county, during all the fires i heard we had to bring in outside counties to assist with traffic control, WOW we must to have had to block more than ONE street because thats all the deputies we have working at any given time. WE should rid of the constables and hire more deputies!!!!

The Mom wrote:

Hah! Don't wait on Conway to save you.

I'm not holding my breath.

BIG DOG wrote:

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LOL CONSTABLES, YEA RIGHT, we need a lot more deputies in this county, during all the fires i heard we had to bring in outside counties to assist with traffic control, WOW we must to have had to block more than ONE street because thats all the deputies we have working at any given time. WE should rid of the constables and hire more deputies!!!!

The constables to take a lot of work off of the Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's Office is also responsible for serving civil papers, both constables have and continue to take this on this burden, to help the Sheriff's office out. Constable Parker has answered calls, and if he is in an area and something is going on he will respond. Conway still serves all civil papers in his area, and would help if asked, but his is still mad over his pay being cut, so he is not going to volunteer any extra help. There is a large quanitity of civil papers that come to the Sheriff's Office each month and the Constable's take that burden off of the Sheirff and his deputies, thus giving them more time for law enforcement. So dont think that the constable are not needed. If you get rid of the constables and hire more deputies, then the extra deputies will be doing the same thing as the constables, seriving civil papers. Our commisioners need to put more deputies on the street, so the the citizens of Montague County can be served at a level they deserve.

What about the highway patrolmen don't they count!

Highway Patrol, do just that, they patrol the roads. They will assist deputies on a call, if requested. They do not do any investigations unless it involves a traffic accident or a background check for a prospective DPS employee.

citizen your post needs to be a letter to the editor's of local papers where the commissioners and others can see how u feel

I think we definitely need more deputies. If you've ever called them, you'll notice by the response time that they are either overworked or indifferent. One person can only be in so many places at one time.

Notsonewintown wrote:

I think we definitely need more deputies. If you've ever called them, you'll notice by the response time that they are either overworked or indifferent. One person can only be in so many places at one time.

Generally doesn't help that that one place is the Allsup's parking lot.

Or is that where they still hang out? Haven't been through Bowie at 2am in a while.

Really NotWoW wrote:

<quoted text>Generally doesn't help that that one place is the Allsup's parking lot.
Or is that where they still hang out? Haven't been through Bowie at 2am in a while.

I have noticed that you do not have a very high opinion of law enforcement, at least of Montague County's law enforcement. Maybe you would be interested in making some changes here. Have you considered becoming a peace officer. Maybe you have the answers that all law enforcement needs. I do not understand why you would be so negative about the people that, who even though they don't know you, would risk their life to save yours. I'm not sure where you work but I suppose that you do get a break time at your job. Or are you chained to your work station and not allowed to look up from your work. Maybe if that's the case you should consider a career in law enforcement.

The Dad wrote:

<quoted text>I have noticed that you do not have a very high opinion of law enforcement, at least of Montague County's law enforcement. Maybe you would be interested in making some changes here. Have you considered becoming a peace officer. Maybe you have the answers that all law enforcement needs. I do not understand why you would be so negative about the people that, who even though they don't know you, would risk their life to save yours. I'm not sure where you work but I suppose that you do get a break time at your job. Or are you chained to your work station and not allowed to look up from your work. Maybe if that's the case you should consider a career in law enforcement.

I can't imagine WHY I could possibly have such a low opinion of Montague county's law "enforcement"... they have such a squeaky clean record to date.

I do get a break, but it's a touch closer to 15 minutes than 2 hours.

I'd consider a career in law enforcement in Montague county, but unfortunately my work ethic and morals preclude it.

So you believe that the officers in this county have no morals or ethics. Well why not just run off the whole bunch and start over. Why not just do away with law enforcement in the county all together. Maybe you feel that it should be a place where we all carry guns and protect ourselves and not rely on law enforcement at all. It is plain to see that you do not know any of these officers or you might have a different opinion. Get to know some of these people and you might learn a lot.

The Dad wrote:

So you believe that the officers in this county have no morals or ethics. Well why not just run off the whole bunch and start over. Why not just do away with law enforcement in the county all together. Maybe you feel that it should be a place where we all carry guns and protect ourselves and not rely on law enforcement at all. It is plain to see that you do not know any of these officers or you might have a different opinion. Get to know some of these people and you might learn a lot.

Shouldn't get rid of law enforcement altogether, but there should have been a purge... if not after the election, then definitely after the jail fiasco.

You think they have morals? Like they didn't know about the jail? They didn't know about the previous sheriff? They didn't know about the child molesting freak that tries to solicit sexual favors from 16 year old girls?

Thanks, but that's about all I care to know about them.

Obviously they did do something about it or you wouldnt know about it, just like any profession there are bad apples, these guys that you speak of are scum of the earth, no doubt, but the justice system worked it just worked too, these guys gave all of law enforcement a black eye, but lets not hold everyone responsible for the deplorible acts of others. You now have a good Sheriff, with deputies that have good morals and want to do you a professional job. Most of the people left are very inexperienced and need training and time on the job. The inexperienced folks probably did not know what was going on and if they did, did not know how to get the problem fixed. I would never defend anyone that wears a badge and breaks the law, all I am aking is that the new Sheriff and his staff get a fair chance to prove themselves as professional law enforcement officers. There was a purge after the election and jail fiasco, each person working there was investigated and when probable cause was found they were terminated and charged if a crime was commited.

Well, I hope you're right, Bulldog.

I am a little concerned that certain high ranking people are still involved at the SO... people that have been there through quite a few scandals... but, I do hope you're right.

Didnt know there were any high ranking people left, I thought the command staff is all new.

Really NotWoW wrote:

Well, I hope you're right, Bulldog.
I am a little concerned that certain high ranking people are still involved at the SO... people that have been there through quite a few scandals... but, I do hope you're right.

What High Ranking People? There is only one person there that has survuved the past two administrations and he does hold a little rank but was not invovled in any of the scandles. Get your facts straight.

The Dad wrote:

<quoted text>What High Ranking People? There is only one person there that has survuved the past two administrations and he does hold a little rank but was not invovled in any of the scandles. Get your facts straight.

What do you mean get your facts straight? You just confirmed that my facts are straight, genius.

You should also note I wasn't talking just about people employed by the SO.