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In the U.S. state of Texas, a constable is an elected law enforcement officer for a precinct of a county. Counties may have between one and eight precincts each depending on their population. The constables are provided for in the Texas Constitution of 1876 (Article 5, Section 18). The term of office for Texas constables is four years.
There are over 150 federal law enforcement offices in Texas. including those for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; United States Secret Service; Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division; Naval ...
Constables in Nevada serve a four-year term. In Nevada the office of constable was the only partisan elected office below the county level but is now non-partisan like sheriffs in Nevada. The office is not fully funded by taxpayers, but supplemented by fees collected for various forms of service.
John Kiefer dominated the Republican primary for Precinct 7 constable, finishing with 70.18% of the vote. Both Kiefer and his challenger, Irving Romero, boasted extensive law enforcement careers.
A Texas county has agreed to pay a group of female deputies $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed they were abused and harassed when a constable's office turned undercover ...
May 13—It took a while, Brazos County Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Rick Hill said, but he was determined to see Johnson County Precinct 1 Constable Matt Wylie honored in his own county.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
Tyler Harrington and his wife were asleep in their beds when four Harris County, Texas, Constable Officers burst into their home and held the terrified couple at gunpoint.