Monthly Report June 2024
Dear Citizens,
I hope everyone had a safe and Happy Independence Day with family and friends and I also hope you take a moment to be grateful and realize, especially now more than ever before, what this special day stands for and why we celebrate it.
This month marks the two-year anniversary that we began to publish a new concept on our NCSO Facebook page called Wanted Wednesday. This is in conjunction with our local Crime Stoppers program which by the way is the second oldest crime stopper program in Texas.
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of any Wanted Wednesday suspect and would like to remain anonymous, please contact Crime Stoppers at 903-874-8477, submit a tip online at www.p3tips.com/1464 or download the app P3 Tips. Reward available. #Wanted Wednesday #NavCoCrimeStoppers
Congratulations to NCSO Deputies Aubyn Turner and Johnny Land on graduating from the Navarro College Police Academy. Both Deputies have already passed the State Peace Officers exam and have now been transferred from corrections to the patrol division to begin the 16- week patrol FTO program. We wish both Deputy Turner and Deputy Land all the best with their new positions at the NCSO and we look forward to them protecting and serving our citizens. We also would like to wish all the police academy graduates the best of luck in their future endeavors.
Congratulations to Deputy Rose Clark and Deputy Wesley Devorak who were both promoted to Patrol Corporal in June. We want to wish them both the absolute very best with their new positions and additional responsibilities. Our newest NCSO correctional officers this month are Tazhane Adkison, Shavanta Burns, Yolanda Levels and William Putman. All four officers have previous correctional officer experience and want to welcome them and wish them the very best.
This month we held a retirement celebration at the NCSO for Deputy Melissa Conklin. Melissa retired after 16 years of service in our corrections division and wish Melissa all the very best in her retirement and thank her for her years of service to this agency and to our citizens.
The NCSO Honor Guard was invited to participate and proudly post the colors at the Annual Mildred Baptist Church 4th of July ceremony to honor and celebrate or countries independence.
The Sheriff's Office had approximately 2,799 calls for service in June and our dispatch received 1,793 calls for assistance to 9-1-1. There were approximately 164 persons arrested and booked into the Navarro County Justice Center and the average daily jail population was 214 inmates. Twenty-seven inmates were transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and two inmates were transferred to State Jail to serve their sentences. In June, we estrayed one horse and one donkey which were hauled to our county farm at Pettys Chapel as well as sold six head of county owned cattle at Corsicana Livestock Auction for $8,340.61.
We are accepting applications for all divisions and currently have vacancies in detention, dispatch, patrol, courthouse security and the criminal investigation division. Remember 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.
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right." -Peter Marshall
As always, God Bless, be safe and God bless America
Sheriff Elmer Tanner