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Champion Great Neighborhoods

Goal 2: Expand and Enhance the City’s Image
Objective 1: Promote Community Engagement
Project Performance Measure(s) City Service Team (Department)
CGN Community Engagement  APD Volunteer Hours Neighborhood Services (Police)
2.1.2  Virtual Neighborhood Participation
 ACAPP/Citizen Police Academy
Graduates
Summary:

The Police Department’s main goal is to provide public Volunteer Hours
safety service to the Arlington community. This goal can 12,000
only be achieved through key collaboration with
residents and business partnerships. Local volunteer 10,000
groups work closely with the department to achieve this
goal. These groups include Community Watch Groups, 8,000
Citizen Patrol groups, Citizen Police Academy graduates,
COPS mobile members, and Arlington Clergy and Police 6,000
Partnership graduates. The department also relies on
local business alliances, apartment managers, and youth 4,000
mentoring programs to serve as crime deterrents and
2,000
offers opportunities for community involvement. These
partnerships provide positive interactions and enhance 0
trust between the public and the department. Continued 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
communication and interaction with the community are
crucial to establish genuine relationships to resolve FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018
issues within our community.

Update: We continue to increase our graduates in our Citizen Police
During the year, our volunteers were engaged in new Academy's. Many of our graduates move on to join our
opportunities within the department, working in Alumni groups who then become volunteers for APD. Our
investigative units such as Auto Theft, Crimes Against Alumni continue to support the department by offering their
Children Unit (CACU), Domestics, Sex Crimes, Crime time to help recruits with Six Flags scenarios and filling in
Analysis Unit (CAU), and the Warrant Unit. service gaps for the community.

With the increased focus on the efforts in keeping APD continues to acknowledge the important efforts and
volunteers engaged, the number of hours for volunteers commitment of our volunteers during high‐level meetings,
at APD increased by 10% in FY 2018 when compared to volunteer luncheons, and other events. Recently we honored
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FY 2017. During the 4 quarter, the volunteer hours an ACAPP member on assisting a victim during a domestic
increased by 17% when compared to the same quarter disturbance, who was instrumental in offering support
of last year. during this traumatic time.

COP Mobile drivers were also trained to measure and APD’s Nextdoor participation continues to increase every
record vehicle speed and distance by utilizing the Lidar fiscal year. The department posts several messages
surveying technology (commonly known as laser) to throughout the year to keep the community informed of
properly address speeding complaints in Arlington’s upcoming citizen training, traffic concerns, and relevant
neighborhoods. information that the community should be aware of.
Nextdoor is a sponsor for National Night Out.

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