Documents Point to Misconduct within Hallsville PD

LONGVIEW — Months before he and three other officers were terminated in December, the Hallsville chief of police had been threatened with firing amid allegations his officers were double-dipping, failing to respond to calls in a timely manner and fraternizing with women while on duty. According to documents released by the city under the Texas Public Information Act, Hallsville Mayor Jerri Medrano repeatedly warned Chief Greg Scott in 2011 about performance issues within his department.

According to KETK, the most revealing of the documents was a memorandum from Medrano to Scott, in which the mayor accused the chief of being unprofessional, being too close to his staff to discipline them and ignoring public warnings that one officer routinely “spent time with women” in his car while on duty.