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Glen H. McLaughlin Scholarship Recipient

Corporal Detective Louis Landry, Uvalde Police Department

Pictured left to right:
Texas DPS Retired Commander
Albert Rodriguez,
Corporal Detective Louis Landry,
and TPA Executive Director
Erwin Ballarta.

Glen H. McLaughlin served as the Executive Director of the Texas Police Association from 1960
until 1988. He had a distinguished career of service with the Department of Public Safety and
championed the State Law that created the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
Standards and Education (TCLEOSE, now TCOLE).

In his honor, the Texas Police Association created the Glen H. McLaughlin Memorial Foundation
to provide training scholarships of up to $1.000.00 to law enforcement officers who otherwise
might be financially unable to attend a particular training program offered by the Association.

Scholarship Recipient Corporal Detective Louis Landry, from the Uvalde Police Department, has
served with that agency for 13 years and 1 month. Uvalde Police Department has been a TPA
Agency Affiliate member since 1997.
This McLaughlin Scholarship Recipients applied to attend the 2025a Law Enforcement Leadership
Conference and was approved unanimously by the TPA Executive Committee.

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