To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Jennifer Gonzales, Police Chief
Prepared By: Kristofer Jenny, Police Sergeant
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Body Worn Cameras and Digital Evidence Management for the Police Department-Update
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Adopt a resolution authorizing the Police Chief to execute an agreement with Axon Enterprises, Inc., in the amount of $1,594,238.43, for a five-year term to purchase body worn cameras, a digital evidence management system, and taser electronic control devices and rescinding Resolution R2023-115.
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DISCUSSION:
In September 2018, the City of Napa entered a five-year contract with Axon Enterprises, Inc. to provide cloud-based Digital Evidence Management through Evidence.com and body-worn cameras (BWC) for police department employees.
On October 17, 2023, the City Council approved a five-year agreement with Axon Enterprises, Inc. for the listed services. However, the Master Services and Purchasing Agreement was omitted for City Council and is now updated and included for review.
The police department retains approximately 31 terabytes (TB) of digital evidence at any given time and produces about .75 terabytes of new digital evidence each month. The body-worn cameras have maintained high reliability, enabling employees to record interactions with the public, capture evidence, and meet community expectations of accountability and transparency. This contract will renew the quality control and coaching tools used to monitor specified performance measures.
The police department continues to issue Taser electronic control devices, an integral less-lethal force option that are part of the de-escalatory tactics used by Napa Police Officers.
This new contract will combine existing contracts for Digital Evidence Management/Body-worn cameras (R2018-114), Axon Interview and Taser 7 Amendment (C2019-156), and Axon Performance (R2020-002) into one contract.
Axon Enterprises, Inc. is an industry ...
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