ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Chief of Police with a Request for the Following:
A. APPROVE a Five (5) Year AGREEMENT with AXON ENTERPRISES, INC., for the PURCHASE of an Interview Room Solution for Ten (10) Police Department Interview Rooms (Outlined in RFP 10-21) to Include the Purchase of Hardware, Installation, Training, Software, and Associated Subscription Costs, in the Amount of $576,730.89.
B. ADOPT an ORDINANCE Amending the City of Peoria 2020-2021 BIENNIAL BUDGET, Relating to the Use of Capital Fund Balance in the Amount of $135,346.18, to Purchase an Interview Room Solution from Axon Enterprises, Inc.
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BACKGROUND: The current Police Department Interview Room Video System was installed over a decade ago. This system is relying on outdated end-of-life DVRs in its 10 interview rooms for recording Police interviews with suspects, witnesses, and victims. These systems are beginning to fail and the current vendor, Safe-Fleet, does not have any suitable current solution to replace the existing technology in these rooms. Currently, the Police Department utilizes 3 different video evidence technologies under two solutions for its Interview Rooms, In-Car Video, and Body Worn Camera Video. All of these solutions are local storage and not cloud based storage. This results in a finite amount of space for video evidence storage, and more vendors are no longer offering a local storage solution as they migrate towards cloud storage only. One such Vendor is Axon Enterprises Inc., which purchased VIEVU LLC, our current vendor for Body Worn Camera Video. In July the City put out RFP 10-21 for a solution to upgrade its Police Interview Room technology. This RFP was restricted to only vendors who provide Interview Room, In-Car Video, and Body Worn Camera video solutions. The proposals submitted were scored by a panel of Police Department personnel based on 101 questions which vendors had to answer regarding their Interview Room ...
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