17-04-2024 19:45 via kxan.com

Largest APD cadet class to graduate with 10 women

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The Austin Police Department will welcome 39 cadets into the program Friday after completing the traditional Chief's Run on Wednesday. According to APD, 10 of the cadets were women.
"This is the largest number of females that we've actually graduated in the class with," Interim Chief Robin Henderson said. "It's helping support our objective of having 30 percent of our workforce of the sworn officers to be represented by women.”The cadets ran in the mist Wednesday morning a
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