Meet LG Police Department’s Newest Officer: Noah Geer

La Grange has a new police officer. Noah Geer joined the police department last Tuesday, July 16, just one day after completing police academy training. The 21-year-old freshly minted officer comes to La Grange from La Marque.

Geer said he enjoys the small town atmosphere that La Grange offers.

“I was looking to work in a small town,” Geer told the Record last week. “My family used to drive through here on our way to Austin. One time, I think I was a freshman in high school, my brother and I came here to buy some wheels. I told my brother back then, ‘I want to move out here.’” Geer said he hopes to become a game warden one day. He plans to work as a police officer for 10 years and then apply to Texas Parks and Wildlife for a game warden position. When he was in the third grade, Geer said he witnessed a game warden arrest a man for illegally fishing with a net. Ever since then, he felt the calling to become a law enforcement officer.

“I knew since the third grade I wanted to be a cop,” Geer said. “I’ve spent my whole life setting it up.”

Geer participated in his high school’s police explorer program all four years. After high school, he worked at a car dealership. When he was old enough to enter a police academy, he started searching for departments that were hiring.

“Just by luck, Chief (David Gilbreath) emailed me back,” Geer said.

Gilbreath said law enforcement agencies everywhere need more young people like Geer interested in becoming police officers.

“They’re getting harder and harder to find,” Gilbreath said.