{"id":425561,"date":"2026-09-04T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:34:11","slug":"dallas-police-training-center-breaks-ground-at-unt-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425561\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police training center breaks ground at UNT Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DALLAS – The city of Dallas finally broke ground on a new Dallas Police Law Enforcement Training Center on the campus of UNT Dallas.<\/p>\n

And while the city manager promised it would be on time and on budget, there are still tens of millions of dollars needed to make it all happen.<\/p>\n

Dallas Police Training Facility \"\" <\/p>\n

What’s new:<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the ceremonial groundbreaking made good on a promise made to Dallas police back in 1990, when the city created a temporary Dallas Police Academy in an industrial strip center in southern Dallas.<\/p>\n

The new facility will be a state-of-the-art, 20-acre campus at UNT Dallas.<\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

One city leader used the groundbreaking ceremony as an opportunity to urge voters to approve the $443 million bond going to voters in November.<\/p>\n

“This November, Dallas voters will decide on a public safety bond that give our city the opportunity to invest once more in the people and resources Dallas needs to be safe.,” said former Dallas City Councilman Tennell Atkins.<\/p>\n

The other side:<\/p>\n

But the facility still needs millions in private and public funds.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got to have clarity on the language. I cannot support asking voters to approve something if two years down the road it never gets funded,” said Dallas Police Association President Sean Pease.<\/p>\n

Pease is concerned about the language of the proposition going to voters.<\/p>\n

Dallas City Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn said the city could treat the money like a blank check.<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

Dallas voters will be asked to vote on the $443 bond package in November. This is the fifth time the city has asked voters to pay for an academy.<\/p>\n

If voters reject the bond again, Mendelsohn believes the council will work on a new bond package that is focused solely on the academy for voters to vote on in May.<\/p>\n

The Source: The information in this story comes from a broadcast report from FOX 4’s Lori Brown and comments made by city leaders during Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n

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