Awards
TCLEOSE recognizes licensees with awards for the following acts:
- Valor: exhibited an act of personal heroism or bravery which exceeds the normal expectations of job performance, such as placing one's own life in jeopardy to save another person's life, prevent serious bodily injury to another, or prevent the consequences of a criminal act.
- Public service: when an individual, through initiative, creates or participates in a program or system which has a significant positive impact on the general population of a community which would exceed the normal expectations of job performance.
- Professional achievement: when an individual, through personal initiative, fixity of purpose, persistence, or endeavor, creates a program or system which has a significant positive impact on the law enforcement profession which would exceed the normal expectations of job performance.
- Academic achievement: when a licensee graduates from an accredited college or university with an associate’s degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, or doctorate and has at least two years of experience as a peace officer, reserve, jailer or telecommunicator.
Read more about this topic: Texas Commission On Law Enforcement Officers Standards And Education