Tracey Cryer –
Willow Park PD Patrol Officer
“Cops and Robbers” is a classic childhood game Willow Park Police Department Patrol Officer Tracey Cryer recalls fondly. Even at 5
years old, Cryer knew. “I always wanted to be the cop,” he said. “I
never wanted to be the bad guy.”
Cryer worked in the funeral industry and mall security/management
before becoming a public servant.
“At about 31, I realized I wasn’t getting any younger and it was time
to pursue the call of my life as an officer,” he said. He’s served and
protected for more than 12 years.
His favorite part of the job is “not necessarily having to work the
lights and sirens, but meeting with people and helping them solve
their problems. I am a people person. … We don’t always deal with
bad folks, it’s the good people that we deal with — it’s that accomplishment at the end of the day, that you’ve done something good.”
Stewart Chalmers –
Weatherford Police Department Sergeant
Stewart Chalmers is a public-servant legacy
child, with a twist. Having grandfathers
and great-grandfathers in the ministry and
parents who taught school, Chalmers said
his family had a profound impact on his
career choice. “[Public service] has always
been a part of me, from the time I was
‘knee-high to a grasshopper’ growing up,”
he said. “I didn’t want to be a minister or a
teacher, but I wanted to serve people, so I
[eventually] decided law enforcement was
my calling.