Monthly Report April 2025
Dear Citizens,
This month we celebrated National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. "Telecommunicators" is the professional title for those we affectionately call Dispatchers or 911 Operators. They are the true First Responder. The lifeline for not only the community, but for the Officers, Deputies, Firefighters, and Paramedics on the street. They are the hero most will never meet. Please take time to thank and honor these heroes in your community. Let them know you appreciate the job they do. We send them all our thanks and tip our hats in their honor.
These folks are a very special group of individuals. I am proud of our telecommunications officers, the job they do for our officers, fireman, first responders and our community each day.
The stress, patience and multiple hats they must wear in a day is not known by most. Even when faced with a troubling or emotional call, those that can stick with you or even gets under their skin, the dispatcher remains calm and carries on. They take a breath, put their emotions aside and keep going because that's what it takes.
Once again, we are very grateful and thank everyone who brought gifts by to our dispatchers and for letting them know they are appreciated during the celebration of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. Your time, kindness and support of our staff is always greatly appreciated.
I am proud to recognize our great group of ladies this month for Administrative Professional's Day. I am grateful and thankful for each of them and the job they do. So a large thank you and a Happy Administrative Professional's Day to Kristin Bates, Breanna Parks, Alysia Brown, Debra Kelley and Mikayla Hippard. I do sincerely appreciate each of you, all your hard work, dedication and loyalty to me and to the N.C.S.O.
On behalf of the men and women of the Navarro County Sheriff's Office, we once again want to offer our condolences to the Todd Morris family and our brothers and sisters at the Corsicana Police Department. Todd worked as a correctional officer at the NCSO before becoming a CPD officer.
This month we congratulate Criminal Investigation Division Sergeant Travis Thurston on being promoted to Lieutenant in our Patrol Division. Lieutenant Thurston has served with the county previously as our Patrol Corporal, Patrol Sergeant and CID Sergeant. We want to wish Lieutenant Thurston all the best with his new position.
Congratulations to our Deputy Clayton VanLoocke who was promoted to Sergeant in our Criminal Investigation Division. Clayton has over 11 years of law enforcement experience here at the NCSO in corrections and patrol.
This month I am proud to introduce our newest employees to our Navarro County citizens. NCSO Deputy David Evans who brings approximately five years of previous patrol experience at the Hubbard PD as well as our newest NCSO telecommunicator Amber Brock. Amber comes to us with 14 years of previous telecommunications experience at Fairfield PD and most recently Freestone county. We congratulate and wish Deputy Evan's and Amber all the best with her new position here at the NCSO.
The Sheriff's Office had approximately 2,784 calls for service in April and our dispatch received 1,397 calls for assistance to 9-1-1. There were approximately 184 persons arrested and booked into the Navarro County Justice Center and the average daily jail population was 235 inmates. Twelve inmates were transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and five inmates were transferred to State Jail and SAFP Units to serve their sentences.
There was no livestock estrayed in the month of April.
We are accepting applications for all divisions and currently have vacancies in detention, dispatch, patrol, and the criminal investigation division. Again the hiring age for dispatch and detention has been lowered to 18 but with all other enforcement positions, you must be 21 or older to apply. As in the past, applications will continue to be taken for any vacancy until the position is filled.
""Integrity. The choice between what's convenient and what's right."
-Tony Dungy
As always, God Bless and be safe,
Sheriff Elmer Tanner