 Construction of the police department's newest patrol division headquarters is underway. The groundbreaking ceremony is welcome news for residents living in the fastest-growing part of Fort Worth. This will help improve our community in terms of safety. People feel more secure about living in this area. As more residents call North Fort Worth home, police calls will increase too. And quick response is critical. This should cut the response down significantly. Our goal is to have for high-party crimes a response in less than five minutes. We believe we'll get down within our five-minute guidelines when we get here. The 23,000-square-foot police station is being built on about 12 acres at 8755 North Riverside Drive near Alliance Town Center. It's expected to be finished in 2018. The $14 million project is funded by the Crime Control and Prevention District. It'll be home to more than 100 officers and administrative staff. Embedding folks into this community and having them actually deploy from here means that people should see the police officers with more frequency just because they don't have to leave the area to get to their home base. In addition to improving police response times in the area, the 6th Patrol Division is designed to strengthen community partnerships too. This is a real big day for me because this is a 10-year effort of love coming to a conclusion and I'm very pleased. The new facility will house patrol officers, neighborhood police officers, investigators and a bike unit. The building will have a community meeting room where neighborhood and civic groups can gather. It'll also have a code blue office for citizens on patrol members to use. We've been wanting this 6th Division for so long because of the huge rapid growth out here to cut down on response times and to give the people of this far north, Fort Worth, the coverage that they need. Now that ground is broken, residents will see construction activity, but there's also work going on behind the scenes to hire staff and officers who'll be ready to move in in early 2018. For more information, visit Fort Worth Texas dot gov.