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Arlington Police Department
620 West Division Street
P.O. Box 1065
Arlington, TX 76004-1065

Phone: 817-459-5700

 
 

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Vision, Values, Goals, Key Strategies
 


VISION

Achieve a safer community by providing excellent service
and involving our community as partners.




VALUES

Service Integrity Respect Education Innovation
Accountability Teamwork Leadership Diversity


GOALS/STRATEGIES

 
Actively engage in community policing and expand partnerships to achieve a safer community
 
Strategies to accomplish this goal include:
  • Identify and promote diverse and strategic relationships
  • Accomplish community policing through personal interaction


 
Use innovative methods and technology to communicate effectively, maximize performance, and balance personnel/workload.
 
Strategies to accomplish this goal include:
  • Relentlessly pursue web-based technologies
  • Provide mobile field units with real-time access to department information systems
  • Establish intelligence-led policing and integrate into current geographic policing model
  • Assess the impact of economic development initiatives on the department
  • Develop staffing models for all work groups

 
Provide a rewarding work environment through workforce development, embracing diversity, and imparting our experience and tradition of excellence.
 
Strategies to accomplish this goal include:
  • Develop meaningful recognition practices that highlight good work/results
  • Maintain a workforce that mirrors the community and emphasize diversity awareness/accountability
  • Develop effective leaders through training, formal/informal mentoring and succession planning
  • Identify and document promising practices (knowledge management)