BREAKING: The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will resume its partnership with the Austin Police Department (APD) on Sunday, July 2.
The partnership was originally forged through conversations with Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov Dan Patrick to support Austin police as the department is facing historical staffing challenges.
DPS officers have statewide jurisdiction and have provided additional support in other Texas cities to reduce crime rates.Chief Chacon says there are more than 300 vacant officer positions and that number grows every day. He says this partnership between APD and DPS is proving to be extremely valuable when it comes to keeping Austin safe during the staffing shortage.
"The partnership with DPS has already proven valuable to reducing crime and shortening response times," APD Police Chief Joseph Chacon said. "This new iteration will ensure we continue that while taking Council direction into account and pivoting the deployment strategy." According to APD Chief Joseph Chacon, troopers will be deployed at his direction, and the deployment strategy will be based on need in the following three priority areas:
Traffic — DPS will continue to monitor roadways with high rates of crashes resulting in injury and/or deadly crashesStaffing levels — DPS troopers will be distributed across multiple APD patrol sectors to support shifts staffed with fewer officers
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