{"id":2883,"date":"2024-04-02T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev88.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/?page_id=2883"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:26:27","slug":"asst-chief-deputy-debra-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/asst-chief-deputy-debra-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Debra Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lulnispp-f7c232679ce65b914ce9edf381222ae4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2987 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11x14.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Chief Deputy Debra Williams\" width=\"141\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Chief Deputy Debra Williams<\/strong> \u2013 Debra Williams began her law enforcement career in 2001 as a Detention Service Officer with the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>She served as a Detention Service Officer at both George Allen and the North Tower Facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Debra Williams was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in 2006. While in that rank, she served as a first-line supervisor at the George Allen Facility and a short time as the medical escort supervisor under the West Tower.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, she was promoted to Lieutenant and was assigned to the Decker Facility. She served at George Allen, South Tower, and North Tower while at the rank of Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, she was promoted to Captain and was assigned to the South Tower.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Debra Williams was honored to be appointed; she accepted the call and joined the Sheriff\u2019s executive staff as an Assistant Chief Deputy, where she is currently assigned to and oversees the Inmate Housing Bureau, which is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> largest jail population in the State of Texas and the 9<sup>th<\/sup> largest jail in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Chief Williams decided to further her role in the law enforcement field and enrolled at Dallas College as a cadet in the Basic Peace Officer Course, where she graduated and received her license in February 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2883","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}