The Dallas Police Department has been training recruits at a temporary facility for over 30 years. The department hopes a new police academy will help it reach its staffing needs.
The Dallas Police Department needs more officers, but it also needs a better place to train them.The Dallas Police Department has been trying to get itself a new academy to train recruits for some time now. In an interview with thespoke about the need for new officers, saying even if some 500 new hires were standing at the ready to get trained to police Dallas streets, the department likely wouldn’t have the infrastructure to handle it.
In partnership with the University of North Texas in Dallas, the city hopes to move ahead with creating a new, modern academy to replace the temporary facility that has been the home for police training ... temporary, that is, for the past three decades. Part of the trouble with getting new officers hired and policing Dallas streets is the facility housing the department’s academy. Recruits are trained at a facility on Red Bird Center Drive that DPD has said lacks updated tech and adequate space to grow DPD’s numbers.
Mike Mata, president of the Dallas Police Association, said that with the current facility on Red Bird Center Drive, it can feel impossible to meet the department's staffing needs.
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