KLTV Channel 7 is reporting that the Texas Rangers are in Eustace to inventory the police department following the firing of former police chief Kenneth Holder.
The KLTV story quotes a Department of Public Safety spokeswoman as saying:
“The objective of the audit was to determine whether the department has adequate controls over seized property, drugs and evidence to ensure that they are tracked and safeguarded. An independent audit was asked for as a result of the removal of the police chief; to establish a baseline for an incoming police chief to begin.”
Holder was fired Sept. 4 on the unanimous vote by the City Council.
Eustace Mayor Elicia Sanders said Holder was fired for “multiple violations of the employee handbook and the Eustace police code of conduct.”