Former deputy receives recognition by the NLEOM

The Stephens County Commissioners discussed several items during the scheduled meeting on Monday, Feb. 10 at the county courthouse.

On the agenda were the 2019 biased-based profiling statistics and the honoring of former Deputy Ollie Park by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial (NLEOM).

Stephens County Sheriff Will Holt presented the commissioners with the 2019 racial profiling statistical report.

“The focus is racial profiling and it allows us to see what our proactive stop are when broken down by race,” Sheriff Holt said. “The two most important factors of this are traffic safety and catching bad guys, drug dealers, wanted people.”

According to the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement, each agency must file an annual report of performed traffic stops and provide statistical analysis of its motor vehicle stops compared to the gender and ethnic population of the reporting area.

Of the 616 traffic stops, 122 traffic stops resulted in citations and only 20 arrests were made.

Constable Adam Babylon discussed the NLEOM letter of the decision to honor Deputy Constable Ollie Park of Stephens County.

For the full story, see the Wednesday, Feb. 19 edition of the Breckenridge American.