Constables are elected for six years. Expanding the duties and responsibilities of the position of the Constable, is totally in the interest of the taxpayer, and in the system of the delivery of justice. Constables carry court orders from the minor court offices. Constables are available to assist the needs of the office of the county sheriff and local police departments. Constables post delinquent tax notices and other service for the county commissioners.
Constables carry specimens for the county coroners.
Constables transport defendants and prisoners to and from the county prison and the offices of the minor courts. Constables duties and responsibilities vary from state to state. An officer, who is generally elected by the people. He may also arrest a supposed offender upon the informatiou of others but he does so at his peril, unless he can show that a felony has been committed by some person, as well as the reasonableness of the suspicion that the party arrested is guilty. A constable is also a ministerial officer, bound to obey the warrants and precepts of justices, coroners, and sheriffs.