SAFFE officers establish & maintain day-to-day interaction w/ residents and businesses within their assigned beats, in order to prevent crime in the area.
SAN ANTONIO FEAR FREE ENVIRONMENT
The central core of SAPD's Community Policing activities is the SAFFE (San Antonio Fear Free Environment) Unit. First established in 1994-95 with 60 officers and supervisors, then enlarged in 1996 with an additional 40 officers, the SAFFE Unit consists of officers who focus on identifying, evaluating and resolving community crime problems with the cooperation and
Viva Fiesta🎉🪅🎊🚔
Stop by Central Substation - 515 S.Frio to PURCHASE your 2026 Fiesta medals! 🏅
04/02/2026
Check out our SAPD Central Public Safety Corps #2459. If anyone is interested in our PSC Public Safety Corps program, please follow their page and the contact information is available there.
03/18/2026
Service often requires the ultimate sacrifice, and today we recognize the courage of our SAPD officers
03/17/2026
Let's give a big shout out to Little Caesars Pizza who brought out their 18-Wheeler 🍕pizza truck to hand out free pizza's to the Cassiano Homes community, Opportunity Home San Antonio. We had the pleasure of mingling and engaging with residents in the area.
03/17/2026
Some lucky kids from Oak Hills Terrace Elementary got to see our SAPD Eagle helicopter do a flyover since it was in the area during our Career Day we put on.
03/16/2026
Today the kids at Wilson Elementary had the a wonderful opportunity to see our puppet show, put on by our SAPD Central SAFFE officers.
03/16/2026
SAPD Central SAFFE had the wonderful opportunity to give some bikes away to students at Crockett elementary.
03/06/2026
Today our very own Officer Frank Tapia and SAPD St Mary's SAFFE Officer Jairo Sanchez received the Distinguished Service Award! The award is for their hard work on putting together the SAPD Back to School Drive 5k. Let's give a huge shout out to them.
🎊CONGRATULATIONS
03/05/2026
Today SAFFE Officer Marshall and Officer Flores had a fun hands on bike 🚴♀️rodeo event to teach bike safety with students from David Crockett elementary. 🏫
03/05/2026
So this week schools across America celebrated "Reading Across America", and today we had the opportunity to read with students from Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary.🏫📚
03/04/2026
This past Friday, the Volunteers in Policing (VIP) assisting our SWAT unit as actors in their scenarios. If anyone is interested in the VIP program, please contact the Central substation.