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Support Youth and Families

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)
SYF Hometown Recruiting Hometown Recruiting Students Enrolled in Neighborhood Services (Police)
1.2.2 Program AISD, UTA, and TCC

Summary:
Hometown Recruiting
The Police Department views Arlington’s secondary and Program Participants
higher educational partners as a vital source of candidate
pools for future officers. In Fiscal Year 2015, the Police 35
Department, in partnership with the Arlington 30
Independent School District (AISD) and the University
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Texas at Arlington (UTA), began the inaugural class of the
Hometown Recruiting Program. This program is focused 20
on vocational education and real‐world experiences with
the department. This program also offered AISD students 15
the ability to earn college credit towards a bachelor’s 10
degree in criminal justice through dual credit courses.
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Open only to high school seniors, the program is a yearlong 0
Capstone class on policing and is taught by an APD officer. FY18 FY18 FY18 FY18 FY19 FY19 FY19 FY19
During the year, students have the opportunity to 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
participate in training with APD officers on a variety of Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr
scenarios, including training with APD’s specialized units.

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

Update:
Our partnership with AISD, UTA and TCC continues to APD has also seen growth in HRP Member applications for
provide youth enrolled in the Hometown Recruiting employment throughout the department while members
Program with a unique opportunity to learn about the law
attend college. The program has seen multiple members
enforcement profession. hired on with the City of Arlington ranging from jail staff to
dispatch services. APD continues to expand its support of
The Hometown Recruiting Program continues to connect these members while they earn their degrees and
APD and AISD resources and goals. APD Training Center complete the requirements for applying for a position as
has recently utilized the AISD Career & Technology Center an APD Officer Recruit.
for Tactical Search Training for Class 57 and continues to
keep its doors open for APD events and training.

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This 4 quarter marks the beginning of the force simulator
“train‐the‐trainer” certification launch. With the addition
of approximately 50 force‐simulator
coordinators/instructors, APD will gain the ability to run its
officers through additional reality‐based use‐of‐force
training. This advancement also opens options for
prescriptive training department wide.

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