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BACKGROUND: The Piketon Police Department is in need of any surplus/vehicle equipment. Providing the Piketon Police Department with any equipment would greatly improve their agency’s operations as well as increase officer safety, productivity, and communication. This equipment will give their officers access to basic law enforcement tools resulting in more effective patrols on the throughways connecting their community with ours.
Officer Greg Colarich, Technical Services Bureau within the Division of Police has identified ten (10) Panasonic Toughbooks, ten (10) Toughbook Mounts, and five (5) Blue & Red Light Bars that can be donated to the Piketon Police Department. The Panasonic Toughbooks have reached their end-of-life and have since been replaced with new Fujitsu laptops. The Toughbooks currently fail to meet the minimum specifications for within the Columbus Division of Police and would offer minimal value to any other City of Columbus agency given the current technology platform already in use throughout the city. The Division of Police and the Department of Technology have no plans to relocate the Toughbooks or their mounts for any future City of Columbus technology initiative. The light bars that are to be donated do not fir the current Columbus Division of Police cruiser platform since the police fleet has been upgraded. Fleet Management has determined that there is no need or plan for future deployment of these light bars.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for new cruisers and equipment has been appropriated in the 2015 General Fund Budget.
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To authorize and direct the Safety Director to donate to the Piketon Police Department ten Panasonic Toughbooks, ten Toughbooks Mounts, and five Blue & Red Light Bars which have no further value to the Division of Police and to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Personal Property; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Piketon Police Department i...
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