Captain Justin Cromwell and Sergeant Jason McMillin received the FBI-Law Enforcement Executive Development Association (LEEDA) Trilogy Award. The Tensas Basin Levee District Police Department is one of only 182 agencies worldwide to receive the Award.
About the Levee District
The Tensas Basin Levee District was created by an Act of the Legislature in 1884 and is the oldest levee district in the state. The district includes all or part of eight parishes: Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, LaSalle, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland and West Carroll.
The Governing Board consists of eleven commissioners, one in each parish, an additional at-large member and two additional commissioners in Ouachita Parish.
Tensas Basin Levee District personnel operate and maintain flood control facilities, to include levees, pump stations and major drainage channels.
