The Arlington Police Department and Tarrant County College Police Department will host the 3^rd Annual Crime Prevention Awareness Festival next week.

The free event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at TCC’s Southeast Campus at 2100 Southeast Parkway, corner of New York Avenue in south Arlington. The indoor and outdoor event will include live music and food. An estimated 5,000 to 7,000 students are expected to attend.

Area law enforcement agencies – including Bedford, Cedar Hill, Dalworthington Gardens, Department of Public Safety, Fort Worth, and Irving – will showcase different aspects of public safety. A variety of helicopters, mobile command posts, boats, motorcycles, fire trucks, ambulances, and other vehicles will be on display. Recruiters will be available to answer questions.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving will display a car that was broadsided by a drunk driver in 1992. An Arlington police officer and a reserve officer who were in the car were both fatally injured.

Other participants include the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy; the city’s dispatch and neighborhood services departments; Texas Parks and Wildlife, CareFlite, Tarrant County Auto Theft Task Force, and AMR (the city’s ambulance provider).