Management Services
The Management Services Bureau provides essential police related support for the department and our citizens.
Providing excellent customer service, fiscal stewardship, and researching the latest technological advances and
equipment are the primary responsibility of this bureau. As a result of the bureau’s hard work, the department is looked
upon by peer law enforcement agencies as a leader.
Alarm Unit
The alarm unit is responsible
for issuing commercial and
residential alarm permits and
collecting fees related to
permitting and false alarms.
• 4,077 commercial property
alarm permits issued
• 18,804 residential property
alarm permits issued
• 580 enforcement actions
taken for operating an alarm
without a valid permit
Quartermaster
The Quartermasters Office
is responsible for ensuring the
proper disbursing and tracking of all
uniforms and equipment for police
employees.
• Issued 6,500 items of equipment
ranging from uniforms to new
radios
• Procured 100 new ballistic vests
for officers
• Outfitted 23 recruit officers for
new academy class
• Managed an inventory of 800
portable police radios related to
communications
Automated Red-Light Enforcement
The purpose of this program is
to increase traffic safety thereby
reducing red light running
violations and crashes in identified
intersections.
• Reverse crash trends
• 23 red-light cameras at 19
intersections
• 32% reduction of red light-related
crashes from the previous year
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Fleet Services
Fleet services is responsible for
ensuring the operational readiness
of vehicles assigned to the police
department. This includes scheduled
maintenance, outfitting of cars,
and coordinating the purchase
and replacement of all department
vehicles.
• Placed 46 new Dodge Chargers
into service
• Acquired 3 compressed natural
gas (CNG) cars to in support of
the City of Arlington’s initiatives to
conserve fuel and reduce pollution
• Installed 195 new computers and
mobile radios in marked patrol
cars
• Installed
65 Digital
Video
Recorders
in marked
units
Information
Resources
Information
Resources is
comprised of
records, police
reports, the Alarm
Unit and Uniform
Crime Reporting.
The Records Unit
processes thousands
of requests for
reports and requests
related to the Public
Information Act.
Police Reports enters all reports
into the department’s record
management system. Police Report
operators also take reports from
citizens over the phone.
Research and Development
Research and Development
implements new technology for the
department as well as maintaining
the department’s public website, the
Intranet and other computer data
needs. This Unit implements and
maintains the department’s mobile
digital video recorders, mobile data
computers, as well as portable and
stationary surveillance assets.
• Replaced 210
outdated Mobile
Data Computers with
Panasonic CF-31’s
• Oversaw the
replacement of the
CAD system from
Tiburon to Intergraph
• Purchased 152
new digital video
recorders