{"id":170309,"date":"2025-08-23T23:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170309\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:30:16","slug":"texas-tradition-meets-recruitment-dallas-police-use-cowboy-hats-to-attract-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170309\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas tradition meets recruitment: Dallas police use cowboy hats to attract recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-texas-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dallas police have added cowboy hats to their recruiting sales pitch to potential officers.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Dallas Police Department announced that officers are now approved to wear cowboy hats while on duty.<\/p>\n<p>The update was shared via the department&#8217;s official Facebook page and its Facebook recruiting page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something new is landing at the Dallas Police Department,&#8221; the department said in the social post. &#8220;Our officers are now approved to wear cowboy hats on duty!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photos on both pages featured the Love Field Airport Unit, noting the department is &#8220;proudly bringing Texas style to Dallas skies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3.png#.png\" alt=\"3.png \" height=\"444\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Dallas Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The announcement included hashtags such as #WeAreHiring, #PoliceRecruitment, #WomenInPolicing, #CowboyHat, and #CareerOpportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The post encourages people to apply to join the force at <a href=\"http:\/\/dallaspolice.net\/joinDPD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dallaspolice.net\/joinDPD<\/a> or call (214) 671-4409 to speak with a recruiter.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/doug-myers\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug  Myers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent time as a digital content manager for a national trade association and as communications director for a state agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Texas Live Dallas police have added cowboy hats to their recruiting sales pitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-170309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-north-texas","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115080686754093337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}