Crime & Safety

Austin Police Department Cadets To Embark On Annual Chief's Run Ahead Of Graduation

Seventy members of the APD's 136th cadet class will run north on Congress Avenue to the Capitol police memorial in celebration.

AUSTIN, TX — On Tuesday morning, a group of 70 newly minted police officers will run through the downtown streets of Austin en masse—not in search of perpetrators but to celebrate their graduation from the police academy.

Seventy cadets will be joined by Austin Police Department Police Chief Brian Manley and assistant chiefs running in the traditional run. It starts at the Austin American-Statesman parking lot north on Congress Avenue and ending at the State Capitol Peace Officers Memorial on the ground of the state Capitol building.

The cadets are scheduled to be commissioned during graduation ceremonies to be staged on June 23 at 2 p.m. in the at the Performing Arts Center of the Austin Independent School District, 1500 Barbara Jordan Blvd. They cadets comprise the 136th Austin Police Department cadet class.

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