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LCRA public safety chief briefs board on history, roles and accreditation
Summary
Chief Damon Dern told the LCRA board on Sept. 24 that Public Safety secures LCRA infrastructure, enforces laws on LCRA lands and water, assists in emergency response, and maintains Texas Law Enforcement Accreditation status; he outlined staffing, coverage and recent responses to floods and fires.
Damon Dern, chief of LCRA Public Safety, briefed the board Sept. 24 on the department’s origin, mission, structure and recent activities, including flood and fire response and a recent accreditation audit.
“We are here to support LCRA's mission,” Dern said, summarizing the department’s purpose as “protecting the people, assets and interests of LCRA and the natural resources of Texas.” He reviewed the agency’s origin—noting early security work in the 1930s under Claude Shipp and the later reestablishment of an LCRA police function under John Wood in 1979—and described how the department’s…
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