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APD North Central Area Command/Operation Restore Hope

Last spring APD Cmdr. Robert Gross and his command staff were planning how to make the newly created NCAC a success. They knew that this was their chance to do something different – to apply what they'd learned from their experiences in the police department and to chart a new course of action. And that's exactly what they've done. In just one year, the community policing gurus in the NCAC – Gross, Lt. Randy Pasley, Sgt. Will Beechinor, Officers James Hellums, Hank Moreno, Gizette Gaslin, and Dave Cooper – have earned the support of their fellow officers and have embarked on a journey to clean up the NCAC's distressed neighborhoods in an effort to renew the urban core, encourage civic activism and pride, and make the 12.6-square-mile area command a safe and vibrant neighborhood for all residents. And their efforts, dubbed Operation Restore Hope, have earned local, state, national, and international kudos along the way. Naysayers need look no further than the NCAC to see that progressive community policing really does work.

APD North Area Central Command District Representative's Office
1201 Payton Gin, 512/834-7402