Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz stands next to Mayor John Whitmire after taking a class photo with Houston Police Academy Cadet Class 264 on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 in Houston. HPD welcomed 53 new ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Police Department is hoping a cool $10,000 will help to recruit future officers. HPD announced the incentive program on Twitter, saying that new cadets would get the money ...

Houston Senior Police Officer Ed Lem issued a warning to the crowd of students gathered around him. "You're going to hear some explosions," the HPD SWAT officer said Thursday, moments before a gas ...

Police Houston mayor announces $10,000 raise for Houston Police cadets, asks them to help in recruiting. Whitmire also announced a $5,000 bonus upon for completing the academy and their TCOLE ...

HOUSTON -- Just as interest in law enforcement jobs is growing, the Houston Police Academy is cutting back from holding seven classes a year to just two. As recently as 2008, the academy couldn t ...

Houston Texans Linemen Julién Davenport, Kendall Lamm and Chad Slade visited the Houston Police Academy as they hosted hundreds of kids from the Houston area ...

Twenty years ago, the Houston Police Academy had just started churning out cadets again after an eight-year budget-imposed shutdown. Eyewitness News was getting an inside look at how the academy ...

The use of force incident happened while Deven Ortiz was a detention officer at the jail and just three months before he entered the police academy. “The Houston Police Department was recently ...