Public safety is my highest priority, and we're making such improvements across Houston with recruitment of cadets for HPD. We've increased HPD by 800 successful graduates, and our force is 5,400, the highest in history. Same as fire, 400 additional firefighters. This will address some of the overtime concerns of some of my colleagues. But this specific substation brought and opened day before yesterday by Metro, is going to reassure the public that public safety is our highest priority, certainly in the East End. (04:47–04:51)
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