At the March 28 Commissioners’ Court, Sheriff Dan Butts and EMS Director Shannon Griffin presented their department reports for the month of February. Butts reported that the Sheriff’s Office responded to 517 calls for service and traveled 18,549 miles.
Their average response time for priority calls was 15 minutes, 49 seconds.
They had 11 felony arrests, 7 misdemeanor arrests, 23 agency assists, and 8 public assists. They investigated 47 property crimes and 93 crimes against persons.
They had 53 animal related calls and picked up 1 dog. They were the primary responders in the city limits seven times.
Total incoming/outgoing calls at the dispatch center were 5,927.
There were 742 incoming 911 calls, which, Butts said, was down by about 400. There were 24 Grand Jury indictments, 11 felony cases filed, 65 warrants served, and 16 civil documents served.
43 people were booked into jail with an average inmate population of 57, of those, 3 were contract inmates.
They had 9 out-ofcounty transports. Butts relayed that they were in the process of looking at two officer applicants with a third one as a possibility.
One applicant was an officer who left to go to the school in Austin.
“He’s tired of driving.” Said Butts.
Griffin reported that they responded to 202 calls for service, covering 10,207 miles.
Their average tone to en route time was 1.19 minutes and the average tone to on scene time was 12.35 minutes.
They received and deposited $114,732.24 in billing revenue, $100 in CPR revenue, $8,000 for STRAC workforce grant, and $1,050 in donations to their EMS Memorial Fund.
Judge Richard Evans asked Griffin if there was an increase in calls in certain areas. Griffin replied, “We had quite a bit of calls in the Wharton’s Dock area. Still, Medina is keeping us busy. Some in Holiday Villages as well. So that’s a lot of the extended times there,”she said.
