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Welcome to the Arlington Municipal Policemans Association (AMPA) fan page!

The Arlington Municipal Patrolman's Association was founded in 2003 to proudly represent the City of Arlington Police sworn and non-sworn employees.

10/31/2026

Before there were pumpkins, there were turnips. 🎃

In Ireland and Scotland, people carved scary faces into turnips and set them in windows to frighten off a wandering spirit called Stingy Jack. The Irish came to call him Jack of the Lantern, then simply Jack O'Lantern. When immigrants brought the tradition to America, they found pumpkins far easier to carve, and the rest is porch history.

The members of this association hope your night is full of candy.

10/28/2026

📬 Our Fundraising Letter Is Here, Just in Time for National First Responders Day!

October 28 is National First Responders Day, recognized by the U.S. Senate since 2017. It's a day to thank everyone who runs toward the call, paid or volunteer, around the clock, including the members of this association.

This week our official fundraising letters are landing in mailboxes across our community, and yours may already be waiting. Every gift, big or small, means a great deal to us.

If you'd like to celebrate the day with us, there's no need to wait for the mail. Whenever you're ready, our giving page is here: https://ampatx.com/donate?utm_source=facebook_helpers&utm_medium=post&utm_term=com 💙

10/17/2026

Today is National Move Over Day. Flashing lights on the shoulder mean one thing: move over.

If you can safely change lanes away from a stopped emergency vehicle, tow truck or road crew, do it. If you cannot, slow down, well below the posted limit, until you are past. That is the law in all 50 states.

It is also a law a lot of drivers do not fully know. In the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety's 2025 survey, fewer than half of drivers who knew the law applied realized it also means slowing down. More than two thirds thought drivers who ignore it are unlikely to be caught.

The cost of that gap is measured in people. The Emergency Responder Safety Institute counted 36 roadside responders struck and killed in 2025, and at least 26 more so far in 2026.

Saturday, October 17 is National Move Over Day. Our members will be on the shoulder that day, same as every day.

10/07/2026

National Coffee with a Cop Day started with a simple problem. Most people only ever met the police on the worst day of their week.

In 2011, Chief Keith Kauffman and John Dixon of the Hawthorne Police Department in California tried something different. They set up at a local coffee shop, with no agenda and no speeches, and let residents walk up and ask whatever they wanted. By 2016 the idea had spread to all 50 states.

It is now held on the first Wednesday of October every year, which this year is October 7.

The format has not changed, because it does not need to. A table, a cup of coffee, and time to talk about the things that never come up during a call. Parking. School traffic. Why the sirens were out on Tuesday night.

Members of this association know the most useful conversations rarely happen in an emergency.

09/27/2026

George Vaughn Seibold was 23 years old, an aviator, and he was killed over France in 1918. His remains were never identified.

His mother, Grace Darling Seibold, spent the war visiting wounded servicemen in Washington hospitals, looking for her son among them and caring for the ones she found. She never got a grave to visit. What she did instead was find other mothers in the same position and refuse to let them sit alone with it.

On June 4, 1928, twenty five of those mothers met in Washington and founded American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. Congress granted the organization a federal charter in 1984. It is still operating today.

Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day is observed on the last Sunday in September, this year on the 27th. Congress set the date in 1936, and the President is asked each year to call on Americans to fly the flag in recognition.

A hundred and eight years after a telegram arrived at the Seibold house, the answer to it is still the one Grace found. You do not fix this for a family. You stay near them.

Share this post in their honor.

09/18/2026

There is a POW/MIA flag flying at your post office right now. Federal law puts it there.

The National POW/MIA Flag Act, signed November 7, 2019, changed a rule most people never knew existed. Before it, the flag was required at federal sites on six days a year. Now it must fly on every day the American flag flies. At the Capitol. At the White House. At every national cemetery, every VA medical center, the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam Veterans memorials, and every post office in the country.

It is also the only flag other than the Stars and Stripes ever to fly over the White House.

The design came out of a request from Mrs. Michael Hoff, whose husband was missing in Vietnam, and was adopted by the National League of Families in January 1972. A silhouette, a strand of barbed wire, a watchtower, and four words. You Are Not Forgotten.

More than 80,000 Americans are still unaccounted for from past conflicts.

Members of this association pass that flag most days without looking up. Today is a good day to look.

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09/18/2026

When the Air Force became its own branch on September 18, 1947, it did not have a uniform of its own.

For years afterward its people wore Army olive drab with new insignia. A brand new service, dressed in its old parent's clothes. Air Force Materiel Command's own history calls 1947 through 1954 the transition period. The blue everyone recognizes now had to be invented from scratch.

The falcon came later too. Cadets of the Class of 1959 chose it as the Academy mascot on September 25, 1955, for its speed, power, courage and agility. The Academy still keeps live falcons, cared for by the cadet falconry team.

Seventy nine years on, a service that started out borrowing its clothes flies 4,865 aircraft across the active force, the Air National Guard and the Reserve.

Some of our own members wore that uniform first. They tend to mention it.

Happy birthday to the United States Air Force. Drop a blue heart in the comments if you or someone you love served in it.

09/11/2026

The date —September 11, 2001 —remains one of the most defining and ...

09/11/2026

This year, for the first time, there will be a seventh moment of silence.

At the ceremony marking twenty five years since September 11, 2001, the six moments the country knows will be observed. The two towers struck, the two towers fallen, the Pentagon, and Flight 93. Then, after the reading of the names, a seventh will be added for those who have died of 9/11 related illness. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum has said it will be a permanent part of the ceremony from now on.

It was added because the arithmetic finally demanded it. 2,977 people from 90 nations were killed that day, among them 441 first responders from more than thirty agencies. 343 FDNY members. 37 from the Port Authority Police Department. 23 from the NYPD.

In the years since, more than 400 FDNY members have died of World Trade Center related illness. More than died on the day itself.

Twenty five years is long enough that a generation now learns this as history. It is not history to the people still being buried from it.

Share this post in their honor.

09/11/2026

On Saturday, Sept 5th, sworn and non-sworn from the Arlington Police Department and AMPA participated in the Dallas 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of this tragic event in history. With APD officers on the climb committee, officers and professional staff serving as volunteers for the event, APD officers climbing in the event and finally, our own Chaplain Burgin leading us all in prayer, APD represented our department with honor and supported all First Responders who climbed for a fallen officer from 9/11. These officers carried the nameplate and picture of a fallen hero, whose last act of service was to sacrifice their life for another that day, never making it home. Our goal is to never forget these heroes and carry their legacy and mission with us everyday. Thank you to those who climbed and those who volunteered.

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Arlington, TX
76013

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 3pm

Telephone

(817) 360-1328

Website

https://arlingtonmpa.firstresponderprocessing.com/

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