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Hutto Police report staffing gains, falling thefts and priority-1 response time averaging about four minutes
Summary
Chief Jeff Yarbrough told council the department was near full staffing, burglary of motor vehicles were down from 29 to 10 year-over-year in the quarter, four 'flock' cameras are installed and priority-1 call average response is about 4 minutes 7 seconds.
Hutto Police Chief Jeff Yarbrough delivered the department’s first-quarter update Thursday, reporting near-full staffing, falling vehicle-burglary numbers, expanded camera tools and continued training and victim-services growth.
“Currently, we have an authorized staff of 51 officers for the Hutto Police Department. We currently have 2 vacancies,” Yarbrough said, outlining recruits in background and field training and naming three recent hires.
The chief highlighted crime trends: “If you look, we've gone from 29 at from January, March to March, 2024 to 10 here,” he said of burglaries of motor vehicles, citing active investigation and community reporting as factors in the drop. He also said burglaries of…
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