SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Sheriff's Office welcomed 32 new cadets to its training program.
Nearly half of the new cadets, 14, are women.
Cadet class 2017 Delta is also one of the biggest classes in BCSO history.
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Sheriff Javier Salazar met with the whole class Tuesday morning.
He said apart from this class, the Sheriff's Office prides itself on having a larger female-to-male ratio than the national average.
"Overall, we're at about 25 percent countywide. We're doing great, but we can always do better,” Salazar said. “We're always, as an agency, looking to push ourselves to that next level, the way we're challenging our cadets to do the same thing."
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This is the biggest cadet class since 2010.
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