By The Harris County Commissioners Court is proceeding with a plan to give pay raises to sheriff’s deputies and constable officers. The idea is to match a pay raise the Houston City Council approved this week that makes HPD officers the highest-paid in Texas.
The matching pay raises are intended to keep county deputies from leaving to work for the city. The county plan will cost 142 million dollars in the first year, at a time when the county is running a deficit of 140 million dollars. The projected five-year cost is more than a billion.
