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File Number: 19-274 San Leandro Police Department field personnel averaged 90,335 incidents annually over the last five years (measured from Calendar Year 2014 through 2018). Mitigation and defense of civil liability and allegations of police misconduct consume considerable resources for police departments throughout the United States; the San Leandro Police Department is no exception. The Police Department understands the inherent value in outfitting all field staff with assigned cameras and TASER devices, which is the next evolution in this program. Analysis Staff evaluated the current body camera and TASER device program and equipment inventory. Staff concluded that both the Axon body cameras and TASER devices continue to meet the Police Department’s operational needs. Staff held vendor demonstrations of other providers and found none could match what Axon TASER provides, but also found that an abrupt change to body camera and TASER technologies would pose significant challenges regarding long established training protocols. Moreover, the Axon camera system provides a secure and digital cloud storage management system that now has functionality to allow for footage redaction to comply with recent legislative changes to the California Public Records Act. The Police Department’s Professional Standards and Training Unit sets departmental training plans for each calendar year, including use-of-force training to comply with state mandated trainings from the California Peace Officers’ Standards and Training (POST) Agency. That training program delivers a controlled environment where field personnel work repeatedly at muscle memory activities to ensure safe deployment in stressful environments. Changing equipment platforms to another vendor after five years of daily use disrupts that consistency and thus would open the City to potential liability. City Council Resolution No. 2014-040 approved the purchase and deployment of 80 body worn cameras for field personnel in the Police Department. Axon TASER shipped two (2) extra units as spares for replacements. This brought the department’s total inventory to 82. To reduce program costs, Police Department staff share equipment. On October 03, 2016, the City Council approved the purchase of 10 additional cameras bringing the total count to 92. Staff analyzed current equipment and usage and found that the department now needs 110 body cameras and TASER stun guns deployed to outfit the rest of the department’s field personnel who were sharing that equipment previously. Also, the Police Department is developing plans to deploy an Unmanned Aerial System Program in Fiscal Year 2019-20. Those deployments will require 5 licenses to the software suite available through Axon’s digital evidence storage module. Current Agency Policies Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 5/29/2019 411