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An Ordinance Approving the Purchase of Body Cameras, In Car Audio/Video, and Interview Room Audio/Video System from WatchGuard Video, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $729,934.68 and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same by and on behalf of the City of Lee's Summit, Missouri. (F&BC 5/11/20)
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Issue/Request:
An Ordinance Approving the Purchase of Body Cameras, In Car Audio/Video, and Interview Room Audio/Video System from WatchGuard Video, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $729,934.68 and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same by and on behalf of the City of Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Key Issues:
The existing In Car Audio/Video and Interview Room Audio/Video System in use by the Police Department is extremely antiquated.
Our server is over five years old and was no longer supported by the vendor as of 2017. In September of 2018, the Police Department discovered that the server hardware was no longer able to be updated. The server initially stores all audio and video that is recorded by our in-car systems. If the server was to fail, the City would have no way of recovering the audio and video it stores.
Our in-car systems are much older than the server. Because of their age, they are constantly in need of repair and often have problems recording audio and video appropriately. As of 2019, the in car hardware is no longer supported by the vendor and unable to be repaired.
Our current solution for our interview rooms is also antiquated. The Police Department is currently writing all interviews to a DVD using a consumer grade burner. If that burner was to fail, the City could potentially lose evidence crucial to cases. The Police Department would like to integrate the interview room audio/video recording with our in car solution so that we can have data redundancy and reduce the risk of lost data.
A bond that was passed provides the Police Department with $1,000,000 for this project to replace the existing video systems and pu...
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