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Waco Police report 2024: all crime down 11% and expanded community programs highlighted
Summary
Chief Cheryl Victoria presented year‑end 2024 staffing, crime statistics and community policing programs, reporting declines in violent and nonviolent crime and describing new recruitment, dispatch and behavioral‑health diversion efforts.
Chief Cheryl Victoria gave the Waco City Council a year‑end briefing on the Waco Police Department on Feb. 4, reporting staffing changes, crime statistics and new public‑safety initiatives for 2024.
Victoria said the department’s authorized sworn strength is 295 and the actual sworn count at the time of the presentation was 264, with five additional recruits in the academy and a hiring pipeline that the department expects will raise sworn strength to about 272 after a March civil service exam. She also reported gains in recruiting staff and recent dispatcher hires.
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