Constables

  • Duties and Responsibilities
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  • Current duties of the Constable are to:
  • Preserve the peace and good order of their precincts, and other precincts within the county To arrest, where authorized by the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, offenders against the Penal Laws of the State of Texas, taking then without delay before the proper Magistrate or Court to be tried. To interfere without Warrant, to prevent and suppress crime within their precincts, and other precincts within the county. Arrest offenders without warrant in order that they may be taken without delay to a Magistrate or proper court for examination or trial.
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  • Other duties are to execute and make return to the proper court according to Law:
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  • Arrest Warrants,
  • Search Warrants,
  • Witness Attachments,
  • Criminal Subpoenas, and all other criminal process,
  • Writs and precepts directed to the Constable by any Justice of the Peace, County Court, or District Court On the civil side, the Constable is to execute and make return to the proper court according to Law: All WRIT'S of
  • Attachment -
  • property & people
  • Capias
  • Certiorari
  • Citations
  • Distress Warrant
  • Ex - Parte - Protective Order
  • Execution
  • Forcible Entry & Detainer (Eviction)
  • Garnishment
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Injunction
  • Mandamus
  • Notice (Precept)
  • Order of Sale
  • Order of Sale in Tax Suits
  • Possession (Not Eviction)
  • Possession (Eviction)
  • Protective Order
  • Reentry
  • Scire Facias
  • Sequestration
  • Subpoena
  • Temporary Restraining Order
  • Trial of Right of Property
  • Turnover Order
  • And all other Civil Process, Writs and Precepts Lawfully directed and delivered to them by any Justice of the Peace, County Court, or District Court.
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  • In other words, the job of the Constable deals mainly with Civil Litigation but the Constable and their Deputy Constables are fully licensed Peace Officers trained and ready to deal with any type of criminal activity in the precinct.
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  • The Constables are paid by the County, and their Law Enforcement Commissions are still carried by the Governor of the State of Texas making them state officers as they were in the early history of Texas. Constables are the only Law Enforcement mandated by the Texas Constitution, truly the Constable are "The People's Police Officer".