Topic - Austin Police Department

Austin Police Department (APD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Austin, Texas, United States. As of Fiscal Year 2010, the agency had an annual budget of more than $240 million and employed around 2,200 personnel, including approximately 1,600 officers. Art Acevedo was appointed as the APD's eighth chief of police in June 2007. - Source: Wikipedia

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IN this Feb. 21, 2013 photo, Austin police officer Ray Kianes, enters a house on Doc Holliday Trail in Austin, Texas. Kianes was responding to a burglar alarm at the house, but it turned out that high winds apparently pushed open a door that had not been closed properly. Austin police respond to more than 80 burglary alarms every day, nine out of 10 of which are false, according to an Austin American-Statesman analysis of police statistics over the past five years. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) AUSTIN CHRONICLE OUT, COMMUNITY IMPACT OUT, INTERNET MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COM

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