| About the Benbrook Police Department
The Benbrook Police Department is organized into three divisions: Field Operations, Administration, and Services.
The current budget authorizes a full-time staff of forty-one sworn peace officers and ten civilian personnel, for a total of fifty-one members. Additional staffing includes three part-time peace officers and one part-time civilian employee. The department maintains a fleet of twenty-four vehicles, including eleven patrol and eleven unmarked units and two tactical vehicles.
The Field Operations Division includes the Patrol and Criminal Investigations Sections. Twenty-five patrol officers, four sergeants, and two Lieutenants staff the Patrol Section. There is one sergeant from patrol currently assigned to a special task force, one officer in crime prevention, one community resource officer and two school resource officers at
Western
Hills
High School
. In calendar year 2010, the section responded to over 14,082 calls for service and logged over 305,000 miles while maintaining a 2.29-minute average response time. The Criminal Investigations Section consists of five detectives and one Lieutenant. The section investigated 1,580 reported offenses in 2010 and attained a clearance rate of 34% for Index Crimes and 81% for all other crimes.
Our department is committed to education and training. Many officers are currently enrolled in colleges and universities, and all receive advanced, specialized police training. Our police employees completed 4,255 hours of technical and specialized law enforcement training in 2010. The Benbrook Police Department is one of only a few agencies selected by the Texas Law Enforcement Commission to offer in-house training.
Statewide, the City of
Benbrook
ranks near the bottom in the occurrence of Index Crimes. (Index Crimes include murder, rape, robbery aggravated assault, burglary, theft, auto-theft and arson.) In 2010 the value of all property stolen in the city totaled $734,426. The police department recovered $173,959 for a recovery rate of more than 24%.
The Benbrook Police Department actively recruits people who share its service-oriented philosophy. Our members are judged primarily upon the quality of the police service they deliver, their crime reduction efforts, and their ability to gain and maintain the support of the public. Our staff is well trained, service-oriented, and very proud of the reputation and relationship it enjoys with the community. |