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Sheriff details equipment and staffing requests in Cooke County FY26 budget hearing
Summary
At a department budget hearing the sheriff outlined replacement and maintenance requests — a transport van, new tasers, body armor, commissary contingency and air‑handler work — and pressed for an additional CID investigator and an evidence technician salary adjustment amid staffing shortages and reliance on seized funds for equipment.
The sheriff (unnamed in the record) presented Cooke County’s Sheriff’s Office budget requests during the Oct. 11 department budget hearings, emphasizing equipment replacements, maintenance and personnel needed to sustain transport, jail and investigative operations.
On the jail side, the sheriff said the office is seeking funds for a replacement transport van after reducing a prior line from $282,000 to a quoted ~$99,000 for a 15‑passenger unit. He described the current van as 11 years old and said long‑distance inmate transports raise safety and reliability concerns.
The sheriff detailed equipment and maintenance requests: replacement tasers (he said current models are no longer manufactured and the department plans to buy roughly five per year for both jail and patrol, noting a single taser can cost about $4,000–$5,000),…
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