State Trooper Rotations to Border Will Continue
Tue, 2016-01-26 22:12
News Staff
Despite an $800 million appropriation that includes money to permanently station more state troopers near the Rio Grande, the Texas Department of Public Safety will continue rotating officers from around the state in and out of the border counties for the foreseeable future.
That acknowledgment by Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw came during an interim Joint Committee on Border Security hearing at the Capitol Thursday, where lawmakers also heard that some county sheriffs say they were left out of key discussions on the bordersecurity effort.
McCraw said that since August, 124 new troopers have been sent to the border region, including many who had previous law enforcement experience and graduated from an abbreviated department trooper academy last summer. About 140 new cadets are currently in training.