Texas County Sheriff's Department

The Texas County Sheriff's Department, headquartered in Guymon, OK is a full service law enforcement agency. The department has two divisions, detention and patrol.

The Detention Division is responsible for the 24-7 operations of the Texas County Detention Facility. The facility houses pretrial inmates, inmates that have been convicted and sentenced to serve their time on the county level and inmates who are awaiting transport to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The facility is supervised by the jail administrator, who answers to the Captain of Detention.

The patrol division consists of the uniformed deputies that are responsible for patrolling the 2,049 square miles that make up the county. The patrol division responds to calls for service outside the city limits of those towns within the county which have their own police department. Patrol also assists the other agencies within Texas County. Many times you will find deputies assisting the Oklahoma Highway Patrol with accidents and you will also see deputies assisting the area police departments within the county. Patrol is also responsible for transporting inmates to the Texas County Courthouse for court appearances. Within patrol is a full time investigator. The investigator is responsible for investigating major crimes and those crimes that a patrol deputy is unable to devote the appropriate time to. Patrol also has several K-9 handlers who have been highly trained with their dogs. The K-9 units are trained in narcotics detection, suspect apprehension and tracking. Patrol is led by the patrol sergeant, who answers to the chief deputy.