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This month's spotlight policeman is Officer Doyle Ozment.

Officer Doyle Ozment and Wife Neoma

 

Doyle Ozment is employed by the City of Tulia. He started working as a reserve Police Officer in September of 1984 and remained a reserve officer for fourteen years before being hired full time in September of 1998. He now wears three hats in his duties. He is the day officer and works closely with Chief McCaslin and Lt. Joe Bill Dempsey. He is also the Animal Control Officer and his duties include keeping the streets free of unwanted animals. His third hat, Code Enforcement, involves working with the City Manager, Bryan Easum. Those duties include keeping vacant lots clean of unwanted weeds and debris and keeping substandard housing and junk vehicles to a minimum. He does this by enforcing city ordinances. Needless to say, some days just aren't long enough. 

Doyle and his wife Neoma were married in Tulia June 4, 1966, and have lived here ever since. They have one son DJ who lives in Amarillo and one granddaughter Braeanne Dly'n. They attend the First Presbyterian Church in Tulia where they have been members for 30 years. Doyle is currently a Trustee and an Elder serving on the Session in his Church. In his spare time he enjoys fishing and spending time with his granddaughter on his four wheeler. Each Monday night, Doyle and Neoma help at the Methodist Church with the group from Tulia Work Center, where Bible stories, fellowship, and songs are enjoyed by everyone.

He is retired from the Texas Army National Guard with 24 years of service. The last 19 years he was Platoon Sergeant of a mechanized rifle platoon.

In January of this year, he was chosen as Officer of the year for the year 2000 by fellow officers. He was also chosen Employee of the month for February 2001.

 Doyle and Neoma enjoy living in Tulia for many reasons, maily because of the size of the town. It is small enough that any time you walk down the street you can always stop and strike up a conversation with someone  you know, and it is not large enough that you have to worry about traffic.

Doyle firmly believes Tulia and Swisher County will continue to be a nice place to live as long as we keep the caliber of people in law enforcement that we currently have in the Sheriff's Department, Police Department, and Texas Department of Public Safety. Times change and people of small communities like ours must be willing to change also. As any person in law enforcement, Doyle's vision for the future is to try and keep a clean, drug free City and County for the little ones that he sees in Church and crossing the streets at Swinburn Elementary when he works school traffic in the morning, just as our forefathers did for us.

Officer Ozment is committed to continuing his service to the people of Tulia and Swisher County the same way he has for the last sixteen and a half years. 

 

 

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