After 21 years in law enforcement, Susan De La Rosa decided it was time to retire.
But the retirement didn’t take, so she started on a “second career.”
“I came out of retirement from law enforcement. I enjoy the routine of a job,” she said.
In her second career, she is now the crime victims coordinator for Milam County in the district attorney’s office, where she is the liaison between the victims and the court.
“I love the feeling of helping the victim through a traumatic event in their lives and seeing them come out stronger on the other side,” she said.
“I do everything from explaining emergency protective orders to victims to assisting victims receive permanent protective orders if necessary,” she said.
She also explains to the victim their role in the court case and locates community services to meet the needs of the victims.
“My job intermixes with everyone in the district attorney’s office and all of Milam County law enforcement,” she said.
Law enforcement is where she began her first career after graduating from Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan where her dad’s job at Dow Chemical moved them from Texas when she was a teen.
After college she returned to Texas and got a paralegal certification.
She got married and moved to Albuquerque, NM, where she went to work for the sheriff in the Sandoval County Jail.
Her law enforcement career then took her to Arkansas and back to Texas in Beaumont and Bastrop.
Once she retired the first time she spent her time working on property she and her husband own in Robertson County. She and her husband live in Milam County.
While she found retirement nice, she missed the day-to-day activity of a full-time job.
So she found a job as a private investigator for She Spies Private Eye, Inc., in Round Rock.
“I loved that job, but I wanted something closer to my residence here in Milam County,” she said. “I happened to get on (the county’s) website and saw this job was open.”
“It was something I have always wanted to do and I felt it would be a good fit with all my combined job experience,” she said.
She enjoys the challenge of her position with the county, but COVID-19 has had a negative impact on her work with victims, she noted.
“They are looking for closure. It is difficult when things keep getting postponed.”
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