About Us

About Us
19TH CENTURY SHERIFFS 20TH CENTURY SHERIFFS 21ST CENTURY SHERIFFS TEXAS COUNTIES  GALLERY 



Montgomery County Courthouse 1900Montgomery County was the third county created by the Republic of Texas on December 14, 1837 from Washington County.  Montgomery County was named for the newly created town of Montgomery.  Texas joined the Union in 1845 and over the next 30 years Montgomery County was divided into five other parts then became the parent county of Grimes, Madison, San Jacinto, Walker and Waller Counties.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is budgeted for over 900 employees making it the seventh largest sheriff’s office in the State of Texas.  There are approximately 530 sworn peace officers allocated for the agency.  Twenty-one percent of the sworn positions are supervisors in the rank of Sergeant and higher with the remaining 79 percent of the agency’s sworn officers dedicated to line-level duties.

 

Divisions
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is organized into 11 divisions.  With the exception of the Homeland Security Division, headed by the Chief Deputy, each division is headed by a Major, a Captain, or Civilian Director. All Captains and the IT Director report to the Chief Deputy. The Chief Deputy, Finance Director and Majors report directly to the Sheriff. Click here for a pdf version of our organization chart

Conroe court house 1940
Jail
Texas law states the Sheriff of each county is the keeper of the jail.  The Jail Division is tasked with providing humane and safe detention of persons arrested, those who are serving a misdemeanor sentence and those awaiting transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division following a felony conviction.  The jail is capable of housing approximately 1,250 inmates. Sworn peace officers along with civilian Detention Officer and Detention Sergeant counterparts are assigned to maintain a safe and secure environment inside the county’s courthouse complex and the jail, which is the 12th largest county jail in the State of Texas by bed space.  Sworn bailiffs and transport Deputies ensure inmates are afforded the Constitutional right to be present during their court proceedings and secure more than a dozen courtrooms for visitors, attorneys and elected judicial officers in downtown Conroe.  Altogether, the functions of the Jail Division involve more than a third of the entire Sheriff’s Office.  As indicated by law, the jail remains the single-most important duty of the sheriff.


ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION
The Administrative Services Division was established in March of 2019 and consists of the Media Team, Human Resources, Recruiting, CompStat, Policy & Research Unit, Crime Stoppers, Reserve Unit, and the Chaplain Corps.


Patrol
Three patrol divisions, East, West and The Woodlands respond to calls for service, conduct investigations and engage in community policing efforts.


Criminal Investigations
The Sheriff’s Office also has case Detectives dedicated to responding to and investigating serious felony offenses against persons and property assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division.  In addition, Crime Scene Investigators assigned to the agency’s crime lab respond to major crimes such as homicide and robberies. The agency has sworn Detectives and Deputies who perform specialized functions, investigate or patrol for specific types of crime.  These functions include those assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division investigating Narcotics, Auto Theft, Vice, Gangs and computer crimes, those attached to the patrol divisions performing Traffic Enforcement and the Auto Theft Task Force, and those contained within the Homeland Security Division working with federal agencies on terrorism-related cases.


Homeland Security
1917 WW1 no loafing flyerMany of the specialized functions are assigned to the Homeland Security Division, which was established in 2017 and includes the Special Response Group, sourced from employees in other divisions and activated in order to control large-scale disturbances, the Crisis Negotiations Team (CNT), again sourced from employees in other divisions, the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT), the section of both narcotics and explosive detector working dogs (K-9s) and a pilot and fixed-wing aircraft.


Finance
The Finance Division is dedicated to ensuring the public servants of the agency are good and reasonable stewards of the taxpayers’ money.

Law enforcement information technology
The Law Enforcement Information Technology Division performs standard IT services in addition to maintenance of the combined Records Management, Computer-Aided Dispatch and Jail Management System.


Executive
A portion of the agency’s sworn personnel are assigned to the Executive Division, since these positions require a commissioned officer familiar with field operations . Employees assigned to the Executive Division serve for Warrants and Records, Telecommunications and Sex Offender Compliance Registration.


Law Enforcement Support
Finally, the Law Enforcement Support Division consists of the civilian employees who serve as technicians who maintain the county’s vast Mobile/Portable Radio system, and vehicle mechanics for the fleet of both marked and unmarked Sheriff’s vehicles, as well as general maintenance technicians who are in charge of facility upkeep.