The mayor of Trinidad, Texas, told KDFW-TV earlier this week he wasn’t surprised that the state shut down his city’s police department.
“It was not a shock,” Mayor Dennis Haws told the station. “I’m not gonna say that it was.”
‘There’s been a lot of neglect through the years.’
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Haws received a letter from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement last week telling him it was revoking the city’s license to have its own police department, KDFW reported.
The Trinidad Police Department employs five full-time officers and several part-time officers, the station said. The community of only 860 residents sits a little over an hour southeast of Dallas.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement said the police department “failed to meet minimum standards” and “was unable to provide evidence that
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