Palm Desert in Riverside County, California: the City Council Votes 4 to 1 for a Sheriff Real Time Information Center Costing About 1.2 Million Dollars Shared by Three Cities, and Defers a Drone First Responder Program to January
The city council of Palm Desert in Riverside County, California, has voted 4 to 1 to move forward with a new real time information center for the Riverside County Sheriff Department.
The center would be built inside the sheriff new dispatch facility at the Palm Desert Sheriff Station. According to a city staff report, it would include a large video wall and workstations where sheriff personnel could view live video, incident information and maps in one place, helping coordinate deputies as they respond to calls.
The center would cost around 1.2 million dollars, split equally among Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells, with the Palm Desert share at about 400,000 dollars. The city will pay the full cost up front, and the other two cities will pay back their shares. Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells have already approved joining the project.
Council members voted unanimously to hold off on the second piece, a Drone as First Responder program. Under the program, deputies would remotely launch drones from docking stations to calls for service and emergencies, sending live aerial video back to the center. The city and the sheriff department plan to hold community meetings, both online and in person, before the council takes the program up again in January.
For the drone program, the cities chose Axon Enterprise out of four companies that applied. The program would cost around 3.85 million dollars over five years, although staff asked for permission to sign a contract of up to 4.5 million dollars, and the three cities have not yet decided how they would split the drone costs.
Source: NBC Palm Springs
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Photo: 图：棕榈沙漠市 El Paseo 商业区（资料图），实时信息中心获该市议会批准推进。Visitor7 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The El Paseo district in Palm Desert (file photo); the real-time information center was approved by the city council. By Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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