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The Texas commission that regulates the state’s licensed law enforcement officers says it lacks the authority to act on the findings of the Texas House investigative committee’s report on the Uvalde school massacre, which outlined a series of failures by multiple agencies.
“The findings of the House Investigative Committee report fall outside of our agency’s purview,” the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, or TCOLE, said in a statement.
The licensing agency typically “has authority to take disciplinary action on a peace officer’s license based on violation of our administrative rules or in the event of criminal conviction,” the statement added.
TCOLE’s statement comes as a number of law enforcement agencies have come under increased scrutiny for their response to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary, where 21 people – including 19 children and two teachers – were killed.
The 77-page preliminary report released Sunday described an “overall lackadaisical approach” by authorities on the scene, along with “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making.”
Though there were 376 responders on the scene from local, state and federal agencies, it took police more than an hour after the gunman opened fire in two adjoining classrooms to confront and kill him.
The weeks since the shooting have seen finger-pointing between law enforcement agencies: Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw called the response “an abject failure” in a hearing before...
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