Dallas Transit Aims to Bolster Security with 61 New Officers
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is planning to bolster security over the next five years, including a 77-percent spending increase in security services next year and adding 65 full-time salaried positions in 2018-2019, 61 of them police.
According to The Dallas Morning News, many of the new positions are already filled due to an initiative to have a uniformed presence on every train. Gaps are currently filled by part-time security officers, and officials say that for the overtime DART is already paying, the agencies could fill the positions and provide training and benefits.