The mission of the Shackelford County
Sheriff’s Office is to maintain social order and provide professional
law enforcement to citizens in the communities of Shackelford County
Texas, within prescribed ethical, budgetary, and constitutional
constraints. This office strives to enforce the law and maintain order
in a fair and impartial manner, recognizing the need for justice, and
the consistent appearance of justice. The Jail Division is dedicated to
protecting the community at large by the housing of persons charged
with various crimes. While such persons are so confined it is the duty
of the jail staff to safeguard the rights and secure the health, safety
and wellbeing of all such persons so confined. The county jail abides by
the precepts of the law and the courts, with human dignity ever in
mind, striving to be able to release each person back into society in no
worse condition, physically mentally, or emotionally, than when he or
she was received.
The Sheriff recognizes that no law
enforcement agency can operate at its maximum potential without
supportive input from the citizens it serves. This office actively
solicits and encourages the cooperation of all citizens to reduce and
limit the opportunities for crime and to assist bringing to justice
those who break the law.