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Volume 14, Issue No. 8 September 2016

Region One website -- http://TexasCPAAA.org/Region1

September – Montgomery County Meeting Schedule2016

January 9 -- AngletonFebruary 13 – WebsterMarch 12 – La PorteApril 9 -- DickinsonMay 14 – GalvestonJune 11 – PearlandJuly 9 – DPS CAA

July 31-Aug 2 – State ConventionAugust 13 – No meetingSeptember 10 -- Montgomery CoOctober 8 -- League CityNovember 12 -- Texas City

2017 (Sign up now by contacting thescheduler; “*”=Tentative host, not firm)January – Angleton*February – GalvestonMarch –April – Dickinson*May – HumbleJune – PasadenaJuly – La Porte

Convention Aug 3-5, 2017August – No MeetingSeptember -- Montgomery Co.*October -- League City*November -- Texas City*December -- No meeting

Inside –2 Calendar, Election, Officers3 TCPAAA 2016 Awards4 - 6 Photos from 2016 Convention7 - 21 CPAAA Activities 7 - Tri-Agency (Beaumont) 8 - 9 Webster 10 - Montgomery Cty Pct 4 10 - 11 Humble 12 - 15 League City 16 - 17 Pasadena 18 - 20 Dickinson 20 - Houston 21 - HCSO Dist. 2 22 - 23 Brenham 24 - DPS CAA25 - Photos from July meeting26 - Info & Notices

The September Region One Meeting will be at the MontgomeryCounty Sheriff, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 at 9:00 A.M. Themeeting location will be the Clint Peoples Training Academylocated at 112 Academy Drive, Conroe. Take I-45 North pastHighway 105 to North Loop 336 Exit # 88. (Be sure to go to North336 as there is a South 336, Frazier Road Exit before you get toNorth 336). Turn right on North 336 (you will be going East andcross over State Highway 75 also called N. Frazier) and continuea couple of blocks to First Street exit. Turn right at First Streetand follow it around till you cross over the railroad tracks. At thestop sign continue straight and the road is called Hillbig Road.You will pass the Texas DPS Drivers License Office on your rightand continue to Criminal Justice Drive where you will turn rightand drive to the end of Criminal Justice Drive which will put youin the parking lot at 112 Academy Drive. Walk around the frontof the building to the far side to enter. A light breakfast beginsat 9:00 A.M.(Program information has not been supplied.)

Issue 8 of Vol 14, Sept. 20162 Region One Flash

2016 Region One Officer & Director Roster

Upcoming Events

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Events Calendar Event

Saturday,Sept 10, 2016

Region One meeting – 9 am to Noon, Montgomery County

Saturday,Oct 8, 2016

Region One meeting – 9 am to Noon, League City

Saturday,Nov 12, 2016

Region One meeting & Election of Officers – 9am to Noon, Texas City

President - Barbara CookVice President - Aubry SartoriSecretary - Richard MelvinTreasurer - Sherry SchumacherDirector, Pos 1 - Leo WaltzDirector, Pos 2 - Delores GantDirector, Pos 3 - Maggie SpoonerState Rep, Non Sworn - Billy BoehlkeState Rep, Sworn - Wayland Fowler

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Following from the Nomination Committee chair–

The time is here . . . to nominate candidates for officers and Board of Directors for 2017!

We need a committee of 3 members in good standing to form a nominations committee,appointment will be made at our August meeting. Members would need to meet soon tocreate a ballot for open positions. Members may volunteer to be a candidate, or the committeeneeds to contact potential candidates to solicit their agreement to be placed in nomination.

OPEN: All officer positions...President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, in addition1 director position to fill the vacancy of one who will be "cycling" off the Board.

If you are interested in serving on this important committee, please contact BarbaraCook by email or phone at your earliest convenience.

The nominating committee should not require a tremendous amount of time, but it is importantto get conscientious committee members dedicated to selecting quality persons to provideleadership for Region One.

If YOU would like to submit your own name for either an officers position or becoming adirector of the Board, please confirm with Barbara Cook until committee has been appointed.

The election will be held in November, but we must act now to comply with the deadlinesassociated with policy.

Corpus ChristiCPAAA hasadvised that the“Texas HonorsThe Thin BlueLine” shirtsshown on thispage in the Julyedition are still available.Also see this page:http://texascpaaa.net/convention/2016/merchandise.html

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TCPAAA Awards – 2016

Alumni Association of the Year – Burleson CPAAA

Ray RaymonAward –

PeaceOfficer of

the Year –Detective

Gary Sweet,Garland PD

AlumniMembershipof the Year –

KerrvilleCPAAA

Each Year, theTCPAAA givesout four awardsand this year’s

winners are shownon this page. Tosee past winners,see the “AwardsGiven” page onthe TCPAAA

website

Bill Ennis Award –Member of theYear – Theresa

Compton, LeagueCity CPAAA





Photo Highlights from the State Convention by Leo Waltz

The OpeningCeremonies also

included two wallsof officers whichdo not show in

these photos, butsome of those

officers are shownbelow on the leftas they waited forthe event to begin.CC Police Chief

Mike MarkleCC Mayor Nelda

Martinez

Bagpipers shown below and right are DanShepherd and Roberta Crain Haworth

Carlos Valdez,Selena Murder

Jace Tunnel,CoastalScience

Chief TomMylett,

PortSecurity

David Miller andTerry Williams

place the CC ribbonon the TCPAAA flag.

Sheriff Jim Kaelin

JimLago

Chief Markle, CCPD, Chief Luther Kim, DriscollPD with Dorris Murdock and David Miller


Below: Swearing-in of TCPAAA Officers and Region Reps recently elected or re-elected to the board

Below & right: Some of the TCPAAA Boardat the annual meeting of delegates.

Above & right:Tables in

exhibit hall.

Left: Groupfrom theSanta FeCPAAA.

Officer Officer Gregory Stevens,Garland PD – Medal of Valor recipient.

Convention photos - continued from previous page.

Officer Dan Colasanto,Garland PD


Some of the folksat the Sundayice-breaker.

Left: The Corpus Christi CPAAAworkers being recognized.

Whotook mycamera?

Registrationtable where

Dennis Sproutof the CC

CPAAAchecked me in.

Larry Curtis, DeLinda Curtis, MelissaLynch, Marla Householder, CPAA Pres.,Eric Rivera, Tom Brown, Denice Eliades

Sr. OfficerChrisLynch andK-9 Tanja

CarlosValdez

and MarkSkurkabook

signing atthe B&N

table.

TCPAAAStatetable

Convention photos - continued from previous page.

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Activities Section From CPAA Associations that arepaid members of Region One

Tri-Agency Citizens Police Academy AlumniSubmitted by John Theriot

OFFICER C. DOUGLAS KIBODEAUX LIAISON OFFICER FOR TRI AGENCY CPAAA

On July 19th, 2016, a motion was made by Edra Bogucki and seconded by Marc Blieden tosuspend the formal meeting agenda for the Tri Agency CPAAA. The general assemblieswere all in favor and the partying began.

There were some speeches—first from our President, Roy McGrath who stated it had beena pleasure working with such a fine officer and hero, among many other accolades.

Then came Beaumont Police Chief Jimmy Singletary who remembered wondering what a“street” cop was doing in PCR (Public Community Relations) and how on earth would hework with “volunteers”.

The chief ended his speech by saying he was proud of Doug and the job he has done as aPCR officer, working with the citizens and the volunteers.

. . .And Doug was the “featured guest speaker”. He spoke of how his 34 years in LawEnforcement began in Harris County, with a detour thru Orange, TX., and finally on toBeaumont for the last 21 years of his career, the last 6 years has been as an officer in thePCR division; as our liaison officer, and as the Historian for the Beaumont Police Dept.museum.

Cake and refreshments were enjoyed by the Alumni, fellow officers, and dignitaries alike.

The Alumni presented Doug with his “dream” gift . . .the Big Green Egg, along with all thenecessary accessories for a grand ol’ Bar-B-Que.

God Bless and Good Luck in retirement, Officer Doug Kibodeaux, an awesome L.E.O.,hero, liaison officer, historian, friend----most of all a spectacular person the Alumni haveenjoyed knowing and having the pleasure of volunteering for.

OfficerDougKibodeaux

2016 Last CPAAA Board picture with Doug

Editor’s note: Also see recent newsletter athttp://texascpaaa.org/Region1/local.html



Webster Citizen Police Academy Alumni AssociationSubmitted by Leo Waltz

The WCPAAA concession booth was asuccess again this year at the City ofWebster 4th of July Celebration. Thesephotos were taken when there was no linequeued up to be served, as the customersfrequently blocked the view of the booth.

We also had a donation jar togive the opportunity for folks tocontribute for K9 relatedpurchases, such as vests,leashes, and muzzles. We funded apurchase of an additional hot caralarm, as the PD was lacking one forevery K9 (we have 3 K9’s).

The photos below show one of the K9 demos thatwas done at the 4th of July event, and a couple ofphotos of the bagpipers and the color guard.

TheWebsterPD colorguard.

Sgt. Vaughnand K9"Kyra" onstage todemo arrest;OfficerMunizassists.

Webster Continued on next page.


The WCPAAA members had a crime scene as their August post-meeting advanced class.A mock murder was committed adjacent to the meeting room with the suspect escapingthru the class (who was able to describe the suspect?). Most of the class time wasprocessing of evidence at the scene, as shown in the photos on this page.

Webster - continued from previous page.

Webster Detective JasonCooper, assisted by

Detective Vince Werner,provided the class for the

Webster CPAAA


Montgomery County Constable Pct. 4 CPASubmitted by Phil Niewald

The K-9lecture isalways one ofthe classfavorites. Theclass willwitness firsthand how theK-9 divisionworks so wellwith the lawenforcementagency.

The MC Constable Precinct 4 startedits CAA class Aug. 30. Class 3, whichhas 25 members, will be introducedto the operations of Precinct Fourunder Constable Rowdy Hayden.The class will be on Tuesdayevenings for the next 11 weeks.

Humble Citizen Police Academy Alumni AssociationSubmitted by Phil Niewald

Attending the State Convention for Humble CPA was Vicky Niewald. Shown herewith Retired Captain JV Garcia, Phil Niewald, Vicky Niewald, Attorney CarlosValdez, Brenda Pritchard Laporte CPA Alumni President and D.A. Mark Skurka

The ride-alongs are another night thatthe class looks forward to. They get toexperience first hand what it is like to beon patrol. They get to see how when theshift starts,you cannotknow howthe "day atthe office"will be untilthe shift isover!

And one more favorite is Crime Scene Night, wherethe members try their skills and analyze what tookplace by investigating a crime scene. Class 3 will begraduating in 11 weeks with a whole new outlook onlaw enforcement!

Continued on next page.


Pictured here is CPA member KathyFocke with Humble Detective DavidScott

Kathy Focke is helping temporary JudgeChuck Noll with the court documents. Taking a break alumni member is

Richard Foisner

The Humble Court showing itsappreciation for alt the Humble CPA

Alumni does, provided refreshments atthe monthly meeting

Kathy McLaughlin is helping withthe court documents.

Humble CPAAA, Continued

One important role that theHumble CPAAA does is help withworking at the Humble court.


League City Citizens PoliceAcademy Alumni Association

June Volunteer Hours 267.5 = $6,716.93

LCCPAAA Donates Trailer for Training Division

Alumni Meeting Guest Speaker

Alumni members enjoyed a greatpresentation at the July monthlymeeting. Thank you to Chief MichaelKramm for giving a presentation on theduties of the chief at LCPD.

The LCCPAAA is proud to supportLCPD with the donation of this trailerfor the Training Division. The trailerwill allow the Training Division to beautonomous and highly mobile. It willalso serve as a tertiary asset for SWAT& CART.

LCCPAAA Prayer Vigil & Support Rally

On July 14th LCCPAAA hosted a Prayer Vigil andSupport Rally at LCPD. Thank you to everyone whocame out in the community to show support for ourpolice officers. Bro. Steven McGehee from BakerStreet Baptist Church lead a prayed over our lawenforcement. Galveston County District Clerk, JohnKinard, shared his experience in law enforcement.

Special thanks to HEB for donating water foreveryone to drink on the hot summer day and thankyou to Rick Owens from The Sticker Project fordonating Red & Blue line decals to hand out. Thankyou to Appreciation Chair Kimberly Hall & PresidentJack Compton for organizing this event.

https://www.facebook.com/lccpaaa


League City Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association

We Back the Blue!

Officer Greg Thomas has been employed with the League City Police Departmentfor 3.5 years. He graduated the police academy as Valedictorian and Presidentof his class. Upon his completion of the LCPD field training program, OfficerThomas was assigned to the patrol division where he currently serves. He hasbeen a proud League City resident for 27 years. He and his wife, Kim, have beenmarried for 13 years and have a seven-year-old daughter.

On 4/29/2016 Officer Thomas requested permission to follow up on a case thatinvolved alleged repeated family violence. Previously, on 4/27/2016, OfficerThomas had conducted a welfare check initiated by the victim’s co-workers andfamily who were concerned over the victim not coming to work and only receivingvague text messages from the victim. Officer Thomas recognized that the victim’svehicles were in the driveway of the victim’s home but could not make any contactat the residence. On 4/29/2016 Officer Thomas made contact with the victim whoadvised her boyfriend did not have permission to drive her car but had taken itanyway. As Officer Thomas spoke with the victim about her stolen car, he was alsoable to determine from the victim that she had been home on 4/27/2016 when hewas at her house for the welfare check. The victim informed Officer Thomas thather boyfriend had threatened her with bodily harm if she spoke with the police.The boyfriend then forced her to text her family that she was okay. Officer Thomas spent approximately 14hours on 4/29/2016 working with the district attorney, obtaining arrest warrants, coordinating with SWATfor the execution of the warrants in Houston, recovering the victim’s vehicle, interviewing the victim, andinsuring the execution of an emergency protective order against the suspect to further protect the victimfrom future violence. Officer Thomas could have passed this case on to CID but instead worked above andbeyond what is normally expected of a patrol officer to help a victim of family violence break away from adangerous relationship.

For his service and dedication to the City of League City, Officer Thomas was presented a plaque and a giftat the Alumni general meeting on Thursday, July 14th. Officer Thomas also received a custom painted ThinBlue Line Tumbler from League City resident, Fred Garcia. To learn more about the League City CitizensPolice Academy and the Alumni Association visit us at lccpaaa.org or on Facebook. July’s programcosponsored by Awards of Distinction and Kemah Boardwalk.

Officer Greg ThomasJuly 2016 Officer of the Month

LCPOA Recognizes Alumni Member

LCPOA (League City Police Officers Association)recognized Alumni first vice president TheresaCompton for her efforts in helping to develop theirweb-based communication and data system.Theresa also developed the LCCPAAA website.Thank you Theresa for everything you do for theAlumni!



League City Citizens PoliceAcademy Alumni Association

July Volunteer Hours 148.5 = $3,728.84

LCCPAAA had the annual business meeting on August 11.Members enjoyed a dinner catered by Jimmy Changas.Members voted for Officer of the Year and new board

members. Member awards were given out to the top threemost logged hours.

Kimberly Hall- Most Logged Hours (247 Hours Logged)Fran Tollett- Second Most Logged Hours (101 Hours logged)Jennifer Cook- Third Most Logged Hours (72 Hours Logged)

We are pleased to welcome our newly elected boardmembers:

Walt Lovercheck, PresidentMelody Painter, 1st Vice President

Ruth Rouse, 2nd Vice PresidentMary Scott, Treasurer

Annual Business Meeting

Detective Gina Gonzales

Pictured from Left to Right, Ofc Young, PresidentJack Compton, Det. Gina Gonzales, IncomingPresident Walt Lovercheck

LCCPAAA Member Earns 2016 Texas CPAAA Bill Ennis

Congratulations to our 1st Vice President, TheresaCompton, on her earning the 2016 Texas CPAAA Bill

Ennis Award. Nominated by Ofc Galyean and Ofc Youngshe was awarded the State Alumni Member of the Yearaward. The TCPAAA is comprised of 5 Regions and has

over 12,000 members.

LCCPAAA Officer of the Year 2016

Congratulations to Detective Gina Gonzales... LCCPAAA Officerof the Year!!! Detective Gonzales does a great job reviewing coldcases by combing through old files, applying new science &technology and connecting dots that were once unknown. Thankyou for your service to our community! Check out LCCPAAA.orgfor full story.



League City Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association

We Back the Blue!

Detective Shayne Yount served in the U.S. Air Force from 2000-2004. He has been with LCPD for nearly10 years and has served in the Crime Suppression Unit for the past 6 years.

Over the course of several weeks from late-March to early-June there was a crime spree involvingburglaries of motor vehicles. Approximately 25 vehicle burglaries occurred in Brittany Lakes andMagnolia Creek subdivisions. Detective Yount was the lead investigator in these cases. Initially, the onlyevidence on the suspects were still shots from a surveillance camera, which Det. Yount vigorously pursued.Based on a contact he made while assisting patrol, Det. Yount went to speak with a female who lives nearwhere these burglaries occurred. Det. Yount felt there was something not right about this particular femaleand suspected she may either be the suspect or knew who the suspect was. Det. Yount was right. Althoughshe was not the suspect, she knew who was and where the suspect was living (in a house nearby and withanother known burglar). Even though this female denied involvement, she would ultimately admit tobeing the second female and was in possession of property that was given to her by the suspect. Theproperty ended up being items that were stolen during the crime spree. The piece of evidence thatpropelled the case forward was a Toshiba laptop. This laptop was reported stolen by a victim who wouldlater positively identify the laptop as the one that was stolen from her car.

Based on the information he received from said female, Det. Yount called on the rest of the CrimeSuppression Unit to assist in nighttime surveillance in hopes of catching the suspect “red-handed.” Eventhough it was a good effort, the suspects were not caught in the act of burglarizing a vehicle. Det. Yountthen pursued the case by filing warrants on the two female suspects for possession of stolen property(State Jail Felonies). One of the suspects turned herself in on July 18 and the other was arrested within thesame week. Det. Yount was able to identify victims to property from 10 of the subject cases. The totalamount for the stolen property that was identified with victims was $3,780. The total estimated amount ofrecovered stolen property without a victim was $2,940. The combined amount of recovered stolenproperty was valued at approximately $6,720. These cases would probably not have been solved if itweren’t for Det. Yount’s proactive nature. Without ever making contact with that female, on that particularday, he would never have known to go talk to her. Then, weeks later, remembering that information andconnecting the dots shows Det. Yount’s dedication to the job and extreme attention to detail.

For his service and dedication to the City of League City, Detective Yount was presented a plaque and agift at the Alumni annual business meeting on Thursday, August 11. To learn more about the League CityCitizens Police Academy and the Alumni Association visit us at lccpaaa.org or on Facebook. August'sprogram cosponsored by Awards of Distinction and Kemah Boardwalk. To view full story visitLCCPAAA.ORG

Detective Shayne YountAugust 2016 Officer of the Month

Thank You to Our BOD!!!!Many thanks to our Board of Directors for leading us for the past

year. As the baton is being past to the new BOD members, we wantto thank you for your leadership and for volunteering your time this

past year. You have established a firm foundation to continue tobuild this organization. Thank you!

Pictured from right to left, Nancy Wheeler(Secretary), Jack Compton (President), TheresaCompton (1st Vice President), & Sean McClintockTreasurer)



Pasadena Citizen Police Academy Alumni AssociationSubmitted by Gene Wheeler

Pasadena CPAAA


We had six members from thePasadena Citizens Police AcademyAlumni and Liaison Officer JamesCoker attend the 2016 Texas CitizensPolice Academy Alumni AssociationConference and Law EnforcementTraining, Corpus Christi, Texas.

At the conference we had an exhibittable as a fund raiser for ourPasadena Police Officers. At ourtable we sold raffle tickets to raffle ofan igloo cooler packed with greatitems at a value of $680.00. We alsosold children's tee shirts that said a"Policeman Loves Me". As a result ofour raffle ticket sales and tee shirtsales we were able to make enoughmoney to pay for our entire PasadenaPolice Honor Guards new shoes.

At the conference we also met manyof our host Corpus Christi CPAmembers along with their Police Officers.

Officer Brandon McClain wasone of our Pasadena PoliceDepartment's "Meet theOfficer Monday".

Officer McClain is a friend thateveryone should have. OfficerMcClain is diligent, kind,hardworking, dedicated and agreat example of what a PoliceOfficer should be.

We should be so proud tohave him as a member of thePasadena Police Department.


Pasadena – Continued from previous page.

On Monday, August 15, 2016 we had afund raiser for our Pasadena PoliceOfficers at Chick Fil A on FairmontParkway, called Spirit Night.

From 5pm to 9pm our PCPAAA receiveda portion of the sales whenever acustomer came in and told the cashierthat they were there for Spirit Night. Wewere also allowed to set up two tables atthe two entrances for "Tip a COP" wheremany of our citizens were generous insupporting our Pasadena Police Officers.

Many thanks to Chick Fil A and itsfriendly staff.


Dickinson Citizen Police Academy Alumni AssociationSubmitted by Tony Valdez

Dickinson CPAA Association Wraps up an Endless Summer!The Dickinson Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association along with the DickinsonStudent Police Academy is wrapping up a busy summer! The DCPAAA installed newofficers-Vice President Mary Allen and TreasurerKathy Velasquez for the upcoming year. Also theDCPAAA has a few new programs they are using fortheir general meetings. First we have one of their veryown police officers or PD personnel come to thealumni meeting and give a short presentation aboutthemselves, their goals and memorable experiencesworking for the Dickinson Police Department. Anotherprogram they have made is “Keep the Drive Alive!”The program spotlights a DCPAAA Member eachmonth that has gone above and beyond! A short BIO ofthose members is shared with the generalmembership. A gift card along with a card signed byDCPAAA members and officers is given to thatmember!

The membership of the DCPAAA along with Dickinson Police Chief Ron Morales andCommunity Policing Liaison Officer Tony Valdez attended the Texas Crime PreventionAlumni Conference in Corpus Christi. The organization always has an incredible showingat the conferences and enjoys the comradery with fellow members from around the state!

And last but not least our Dickinson Student Police Academy after a very intense summerdoing law enforcement exercises and demonstrations gets a day at the arcade!!! Please noteeven at the arcade we took advantage of their Laser Tag facility located at Bay Area Race inDickinson! The students are projected to graduate at the end of the summer with flyingcolors. Yes that does have a ring for the Alumni and the students “The Endless Summer!”We will be back at it again as we set sail into our fall and holiday months.


DCPAAA President CarolynSuderman swears into office new

VP Mary Allen and Treasurer KathyVelasquez at their general

membership meeting.

Officer Anthony Rao and Dispatcher Shajira Coco gave presentationsabout their experiences and goals with the Dickinson Police Dept. andwere given a DCPAAA Challenge Coin from President Carolyn Suderman.


Dickinson - continued from previous page.

The Student PoliceAcademy along withDCPAAA members aftera day of laser tag!!!

The DCPAAA members along withDickinson Police Chief Ron Moralesand Liberty LT. Chip Fairchild at theTCPAA Banquet Awards Dinner inCorpus Christi.

Laser tagged bound DickinsonStudent Police Academy membersVeronica Medina, Eric Garcia,Lyla Clifford, Mariela Contreras,Allyssa Serda-Faour, Fasial Saeed,DCPAAA member Nyna Burright,Autumn Boss, Bay Area Race TrackManager Art Flores, Tyler Ward,Jon Norwood & Marcel Casas.

Right: DCPAAA Nyna Burright was the spotlightmember of the DCPAAA’s new program “Keepthe Drive Alive!” President Carolyn Sudermanand VP Damon Brown are the chairman of theprogram. Also spotlighted but not pictured areDCPAAA Members Anthony Emmite and DonSalvato.



Houston Citizen Police Academy Alumni AssociationSubmitted by Mike Weingart - HCPAAA

The Houston CPAAA held its first Meet and Greet at the Houston Police Officers UnionBuilding on Thursday, Aug. 18. The event was the first time the alumni group hosted anintroductory meeting for the incoming CPA class, Number 54. The refreshments werefurnished by Class 53.

Assistant Chief C. A. Vazquez, head of the Professional Development Command, told thefuture citizen academy attendees that HPD really needs the support of the citizens who jointhe HCPA and give their time. HPD will have five cadet classes for new officers this yearand next. But these potential 700 new officers are offset by about 250 retirements per year,Chief Vasquez said. “We need 5,800 officers and have 5,200.”

Sgt. Kraig Buchanan, who supervises the HCPA program, said the goals are to havea good time and for their class to be better than the last. He outlined the programs for the10-week course.

Officer Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, told the incomingcitizens group: “This is your home.” All but about 30 of the 5,200 officers belong to theHPOU, Hunt said. HPD is 51% minority and that is the reason Houston doesn’t haveproblems that are occurring in other cities, he said. Ninety-five percent of the citizens ofall races support the police and 95% of all officers are fine individuals, he added.

Region 1 Alumni Volunteers Shine at the TCPA Conference!

The DCPAAA along with League City, DeerPark and Harris County Sheriff DepartmentCitizens Alumni’s volunteered at the TexasCrime Prevention Association SummerConference. The conference was held at LaTorretta Resort off Lake Conroe. Thevolunteers assisted with break out sessionmoderating, conference registration anddistribution of door prizes to list a few tasks.Its incredible members like these that weneed to help make our conferences asuccess! Texas Gulf Coast Crime PreventionAssociation who was the hosting regioncommends each and every volunteer fromall the alumni’s for coming out and assisting with theconference. If you are interested in joining one of thevolunteer alumni’s in your area please contact OfficerTony Valdez at [email protected] forassistance. Also please visit our websiteswww.tgccpa.org or wwww.tcpa.org for details and information as well.

Pictured L to R: DCPAAA members BretBurright, Tony Emmite, Kay Lowell,TCPA President Andrew Samarripa,

Marilyn Decker, Nyna Burright, TammyClark and Mary Allen.

Dickinson - continued from previous page.


Harris County Sheriff Office District 2 CPAAASubmitted by Phil Niewald

District 2 honored Deputies Christopher Hernandez andAngela Fry as July Deputies of the Month. Their quick actionsresulted in the arrest of suspects in a burglary of a business –a fireworks stand. They also recovered the stolenmerchandise. (Also pictured: District 2 President LaurenClifton)

District 2 members helped with the Shred-It event sponsoredby The HCSO. Over 150 community members broughtdocuments for shredding filling 2Shred-It trucks.

Sgt. Jackie Fortune is shown unloading boxes of paper tobe shredded.

Right & Below: HCSO CPAAA membersfrom Districts 2 and 3 helped withSheriff Ron Hickman’s Town HallMeeting in Clear Lake.

Below: Members of Districts 2, 3, and5 helped assemble books for the new

CPA class.

Left: HCSO CPA Class 42 kicked off in District 4in Katy. Alumni from Districts 2, 3, 4, and 5 cameto help and also provided food for the cadets,coordinators, and HCSO guests. The class willcontinue until November.


Brenham Citizens Police Academy Alumni AssociationExtracted from pages of The Informant, August 2016.

Submitted by Benita SchrammeThese are just a few; the complete edition can be found athttp://texascpaaa.org/Region1/local.html

Dairy Queen hosted a fundraiser “Miracle TreatDay” for the Children’s Miracle Network (CMN).Police Officers and Firefighters were asked toassist in their efforts bydelivering said treats topatrons tables. All theproceeds from the sale ofBlizzards that day went to theCMN. Below you see ChiefGoodman delivering a largetray of Blizzards; well he

purchased those himself to aid the cause and to feed his many Police andCOP helpers. COPs were there to fingerprint children, serve the treats;and eat ice cream, of course.Thanks for the Blizzard Chief!

CPAAA PresidentRon Upchurch withthe recipient of theMarsha Ellis UllrichScholarship for 2016

CONGRATS !!

A sea of blue to back the blue.What a great community to comeout on short notice and show thatthey back our Law Enforcement Of-ficers and mourn the loss of theslain officers in Dallas, as well as,Baton Rouge and other cities.



Once again Wal-Mart showed itsappreciation to our department forthe fine protection of their store andof Brenham, with a nice lunch. Therewas a large contingent of Officersand Staff ready to show theirappreciation, by eating it all!

Fingerprinting Crew atMcDonalds doing just alittle bit of work (we printed42 children) Then the funbegan. It started at thephoto booth and endedwith burgers and fries. Allin all, a good day!Good Job Guys!

The W C BlueBlazers brought bysome goodies!

Brenham - continued from previous page.



DPS Citizens Academy AlumniSubmitted by Phil Niewald

The newly promoted SGTRichard Standifer andDPSCAA liaison takingphotos for DPS.

Ben Gillis Transtar volunteer and DPSCAA memberaddressing the members for the tour of the Transtar facility.

It was a realhonor to haveCommanderDuane Steenaddress theRegion Onemeeting. It wasvery interestingto learn about themany differentagencies that areunder hiscommand.

DPSCAA President CarolEdwards with Sgt. ValeriaGlasco, Julie Valenti andVicky Niewald, with the

DPS Challenger.

CarolEdwardsDPSCAAPresidentduring theTRANSTARtour

See next page for additional photosfrom the TranStar meeting.


Photos from July Meeting at Transtar Leo Waltz


Information and Notices CommitteesAudit: TBD annuallyBenevolence: Dolores Gant, Chair, 281-997-1015;

[email protected]: TBDByLaws: TBDLODD: Jack Compton, [email protected]: Chair: Becky Hoke, 409 948-4443,

[email protected] Spooner, 281-217-6577, [email protected]

Merchandise Sales: Sandi MillerNominations: Chair: Sandi Miller,

[email protected] Boehlke, 409-925-2043; [email protected]

Scheduling: Jeanne Canales, Chair, [email protected]: Jeanne Canales, Chair, [email protected]

Dottie Duby, 979-419-2383, [email protected] Phillips, 936-377-3891;Adell Boren, [email protected];Calvin Walker, [email protected]

Future activities should be sent to LeoWaltz, editor and the Region One andTexas CPAAA web manager, at thefollowing email address:[email protected]

This newsletter is a monthly publicationof Region One of the Texas CitizenPolice Academy Alumni Association.

Region One website:TexasCPAAA.org/Region1

October MeetingOct 8, 2016Time: 9:00 AMPlace: League City

● This Region newsletter was notpublished in August.

● Submissions for the TCPAAA statenewsletter should be sent to VickieThompson, 1st VP, [email protected]. Deadlinefor its next edition is Sept 9, 2016

● Region Officers and one Directorwill be elected at the Novembermeeting.

● The next TCPAAA state board willmeet on Oct. 29, which is the 5thSaturday, instead of the usual 4thSaturday.

Associations: 25AngletonBrenhamDeer ParkDickinsonDPS CAAFt. Bend Co.Galveston (city)Galveston Co SheriffHarris County SheriffHoustonHumbleLa PorteLake JacksonLeague City

Liberty CountyMontgomery

CountyMontg. Co.

Constable P4PasadenaPearlandRichmondSanta FeSugarlandTexas CityTri AgencyWebster

Individuals: 5

Billy BoehlkeJeanne

CanalesAmelia CollinsSusan ErnstWinona Heltzel

List as of 8/1/16Treasurer has

latest official list.

2016 Region One Members

Deadline for Oct. Edition:Sept 24, 2016

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http://TexasCPAAA.org/Region1

mailto:[email protected].

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