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Harris County Sheriff's Office—April 2nd, 2012
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Office and other Sheriff’s Office crime fighters are calling on local residents to help apprehend fugitives charged with abusing children. Read More »
KTRK-TV—April 2nd, 2012
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, along with Crime Stoppers, is launching their “Safe Child” initiative today. It’s a major effort to keep children safe from dangerous predators. Read More »
My Fox Houston—April 2nd, 2012
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and statistics suggest there’s a long way to go to get control of the problem. Nearly 67,000 Texas children were confirmed abuse victims in 2010, but an annual effort to bring those numbers down starts today. Read More »
KUHF—April 2nd, 2012
It is another year and another major effort to keep children safe from dangerous predators. Houston Police and the Harris County Sheriff’s Department helped Crime Stoppers launch the 6th Annual “Safe Child Initiative.” Read More »
PoliceOne.com—March 31st, 2012
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has trained the first of what he expects will be hundreds of private security guards who have signed up to help deputies apprehend wanted suspects, secure crime scenes and search for missing persons. Read More »
Officer.com—March 27th, 2012
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia says by balancing his department’s $392 million budget, he’ll be able to transfer 100 deputies from jail duties to crime-fighting jobs in the next year while hiring hundreds of new civilian jailers. Read More »
KUHF—March 26th, 2012
“Out of the red” means the end of an apparent hiring freeze for the Harris Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Adrian Garcia says by balancing his department’s budget, he will be able to move 100 deputies out of the county jail & hire civilians to take their place. Read More »
KTRK—March 26th, 2012
The hiring freeze is over for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and the sheriff says he now plans to fill some 300 positions.
Harris Co. Sheriff Adrian Garcia says for the first time in six years, his administration has managed to bring overspending under control and is now in the position to put more boots on the ground. Read More »
MSNBC—March 26th, 2012
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is making changes aimed at keeping people safer without overspending.
Sheriff Adrian Garcia said that when he took office, he slashed items in the budget to bring annual spending down. He said he accomplished that, and he wants more deputies on the streets. Read More »
The Houston Chronicle—March 26th, 2012
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia says by balancing his department’s $392 million budget, he will be able to transfer 100 deputies from jail duties to crime-fighting jobs while hiring hundreds of new civilian jailers. Read More »