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Jumping Frog wrote:

JALLEN wrote:Is it a full time position? I assume one has to be eligible to be a sworn officer, ....

Is there one in every precinct? How big is a precinct?

Constables are a bigger deal than you are realizing.

I live in Harris County Precinct 4, which has a population just over 1 million people. The Constable has eight facilities, about 25 commanding officers, hundreds of rank and file, and about a dozen divisions. They do a lot more than just warrants. They do traffic enforcement, crime scene investigation. white collar/fraud investigations, K-9 units, mounted patrol, DWI enforcement, etc. etc.

Constables are fully sworn law enforcement officers with arrest powers and authority.

JP171 wrote:A Constable is an elected position, the deputy constable are hired employees of the precinct constable. they are certified and sworn peace officers just like any other leo. Constables are primarily warrent and process servers for the local Justice of the peace, in some districts they do traffic enforcement, also some are hired by contract to do traffic duty on such things as toll roads and patrol within gated communities. they are also contracted to do the law enforcement many times within what is called a village here in Texas