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Support Quality Education

Goal 1: Partner with Local Organizations to Educate and Mentor
Objective 2: Retain Arlington Graduates and Improve Department Recruitment Pools
Project Performance Measure(s) City Service Team (Department)
SQE Hometown Recruiting Hometown Recruiting Students Enrolled in Neighborhood Services (Police)
1.2.2 Program AISD, UTA, and TCC
Summary:

The Police Department views Arlington’s secondary and Hometown Recruiting
higher educational partners as a vital source of candidate Program Participants
pools for future officers. In Fiscal Year 2015, the Police 40
Department, in partnership with the Arlington 35
Independent School District (AISD) and the University
Texas at Arlington (UTA), began the inaugural class of the 30
Hometown Recruiting Program. This program is focused 25
on vocational education and real‐world experiences with 20
the department. This program also offered AISD students
the ability to earn college credit towards a bachelor’s 15
degree in criminal justice through dual credit courses. 10
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Open only to high school seniors, the program is a yearlong
Capstone class on policing and is taught by an APD officer. 0
During the year, students have the opportunity to FY17 FY17 FY17 FY17 FY18 FY18 FY18 FY18
participate in training with APD officers on a variety of 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
scenarios, including training with APD’s specialized units. Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr

Success of the program will be monitored as student’s
move through degree programs at UTA and Tarrant County AISD UTA TCC
College, culminating with a fast track hiring process with
the Arlington Police Department.

Update:
During this year, the department was able to expand Throughout the 2017‐2018 school year and summer,
awareness and participation of the Hometown Recruiting nearly 1,200 hours of in‐kind ancillary instruction and
program. Since the partnership was augmented in 2015 to scenario training were contributed by officers to the
include an Arlington Officer as the instructor and program.
facilitator of the program, the program has seen a 300%
increase in applicants since its inception.

This year, AISD added a class section to the program to
admit more students. APD continues to look for new ways
to provide alternative solutions for those students that
are not accepted. Additionally, we are noticing more
student growth in the program as they continue to UTA
and TCC.

We currently have 25 students attending college in
Arlington, and multiple members who have joined the
armed forces or are attending college in other cities.

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