Pflugerville Police Get $5K Donation To Help Officers' Families, Fund Youth Scholarships

PFLUGERVILLE, TX -- The police department has been awarded a $5,000 donation aimed at helping individual officers in emergencies and to provide youth scholarships, officials announced.

The donation was made at the kickoff of the Pflugerville Downtown Association's annual PflugerGolf Tournament that took place Oct. 10 at Star Ranch Golf Club. There, tournament organizers announced the Pflugerville Police Department as this year's Pflugerville Legend Award recipient.

The $5,000 donation will bolster a new benevolence fund to support families or individual officers in tmes of need and to provide scholarships to youth.

“It is an honor to recognize our Pflugerville Police Department for their valor and commitment to the Pflugerville community,” Victor Johnson of the Pflugerville Downtown Association said. “The Pflugerville Downtown Association is proud to present $5,000 to launch a benevolence fund to support our police force. These men and women work every day, rain or shine, to ensure our community is peaceful, safe, and secure, while treating every person with respect and dignity. It is our pleasure to name the Police Department this year's Pflugerville Legend."

The newly established Pflugerville Police Benevolence Fund plans to ensure that police officers know their families and loved ones will be taken care in times of greatest need, Johnson said, even with the silent wish that the fund doesn't have to be used: "We pray that we will never have to use the fund and our officers will remain as safe as they have made our community.”

Pflugerville’s first Police Chief and founder of the Pflugerville Police Department, David Buesing, and Police Chief Chuck Hooker accepted the award on behalf of the Police Department which has grown to more than 100 officers and public servants from a department of one back in 1980, city officials said.

The Pflugerville Downtown Association is accepting donations to the benevolence fund. For more information, contact Victor Johnson with the Pflugerville Downtown Association by clicking here.

The Pflugerville Downtown Association is an incorporated, nonprofit association of businesses, property owners, and individuals who promote the services and businesses in Old Town Pflugerville, as well as beautifying the area and encouraging interaction with the community, officials explained.

Year-round, officials reminded, the Pflugerville Police Department gives back to the community in addition to exercising its mission to protect and serve (it receives more than 68,000 calls for service every year, city officials noted). With programs like Blue Santa which have supported more than 1,000 families in the last five years and Cool Moves, Pfreeze Pflugerville and various programs that encourage safety, the Pflugerville Police Department has made a lasting impact on the city of Pflugerville, officials said.

Additionally, police programs such as Seniors and Law Enforcement Together, Victim Services, and Citizen Police Academy work in concert toward enabling residents and police to make Pflugerville a safer place and provide support to residents, officials added.

The police department's service to the community has earned a number of accolades, including Outstanding Crime Prevention Program, and Public outreach awards from the Central Texas Crime Prevention Association and media awards from the City County Communications and Marketing Association. City officials said the department excels statewide and achieved Recognized Law Enforcement Agency from the Texas Police Chief’s Association Law Enforcement Recognition Program for compliance with more than 165 best practices in Texas Law Enforcement. The department receives more than 68,000 calls for service each year.

To look at scenes from the golf tournament, click here.

>>> Image via Pflugerville Police Department