APD Annual Reports - 2017 Annual Report | Page 32

Spotlight - Hurricane Harvey The State of Texas was impacted on August 25, 2017 when Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm. Large areas of destruction resulted in the path of the storm. Harvey continued to dump enormous amounts of rainfall in South Central Texas over the next two weeks which caused catastrophic flooding in the greater Houston area. On Monday, August 28, 2017, the department mobilized a team of 19 officers to deploy in the storm ravaged areas. Over the next three weeks, a total of 61 officers would respond to Houston, Cleveland, The Woodlands, and Harris and Liberty Counties to offer assistance and supplement existing law enforcement resources. 32 Annual Report 2017