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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 10,000
can only be achieved through key collaboration with
residents and business partnerships. Local volunteer 8,000
groups work closely with the department to achieve
this goal. These groups include Community Watch 6,000
Groups, Citizen Patrol groups, Citizen Police Academy
graduates, COPS mobile members, and Arlington Clergy 4,000
and Police Partnership graduates. The department also
relies on local business alliances, apartment managers, 2,000
and youth mentoring programs to serve as crime
deterrents and offers opportunities for community 0
involvement. These partnerships provide positive 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
interactions and enhance trust between the public and
the department. Continued communication and FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019
interaction with the community are crucial to establish
genuine relationships to resolve issues within our
community.

Update:
In the fourth quarter, the Crime Prevention Unit During this quarter, we continued our social justice efforts in
focused on adding more training for our volunteers. the community by partnering with the SCORE program. It is an
This included Fair and Impartial Policing and LIDAR initiative in conjunction with HELP Consulting, where an NFL
training topics for the COP Mobile members. Our Social Justice grant was obtained, and officers served as
citizens enjoy the training and are able to pass on this mentors for student athletes at Sam Houston High School.
information to others in the community. Despite
reaching nearly 30,000 hours in volunteer hours this
fiscal year, we experienced an 11% reduction in hours
compared to last fiscal year. We are focusing efforts to
expand volunteer opportunities for this upcoming year.

Our Arlington Clergy and Police Partnership (ACAPP)
graduated 5 students. The graduating students are now
able to join the current ACAPP members in assisting the
PD. We prepared for National Night Out on October 1
st
and focused on maintaining our current ranking of first
place in cities over 300,000 population. With our
community engagement efforts, we anticipate an
increase in National Night Out parties.

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