The Lamesa Police Department’s annual racial profiling report, which includes public contact data made by law enforcement officers, was presented at the Feb. 26 meeting of the Lamesa City Council. The report was compiled by the Lamesa P.D. for the period from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2018 and was presented by Lieutenant Darrell Williams. The annual police report is required by the Texas Racial Profiling Law (S.B. No. 1074), which became effective on Jan. 1, 2002. Since that time, Chief of Police Dale E. Alwan Sr. said in a signed letter included with the report, the local police department “ ... has ...