CC MEETING: September 10, 2024
DATE: August 23, 2024
TO: Erin Rinehart, City Manager
FROM: Roberto Arrendondo, Chief of Police
Rex Redden, Executive Director of Public Safety
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Consider A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager To Purchase Audio-Visual Equipment And Installation And Support Services From AVI Systems, Inc. Through An Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with TIPS For The Real Time Crime Center At The Police Department In An Amount Not To Exceed $200,906.91.
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BACKGROUND:
The Carrollton Police Department (CPD) has taken steps to develop a Real Time Crime Center (RTCC). An RTCC is a public safety group staffed with sworn officers, professional staff, or a combination of the two that serves as a centralized location for criminal information and intelligence analysis within a public safety organization. The purpose of an RTCC is to manage real-time data and intelligence to proactively mitigate crime, reactively investigate crime, or provide situational awareness to increase officer and citizen safety, statistical analysis, and internal and external communication.
The primary objective of this project is to integrate and layer hardware and software technologies to enable CPD to serve a proactive approach that will assist with calls for service and monitoring any suspicious activities to solve and reduce crime. The focal point will be a video wall where the multiple inputs can be displayed and processed in real time. The CPD RTCC will integrate current technologies and new systems that may be acquired in the future, as well as third-party assets from community partners, such as school districts, local business and other law enforcement agencies.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
The total cost of the equipment, installation, support and one year maintenance plan for the RTCC Audio Visual Equipment is $200,000.91. The funding for this purchase will come from a combination of current Police Department budgeted funds and seized fun...
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