City Council
MEETING DATE: 8/8/2018
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Ratification of Desert Hot Springs Dispatch Services Contract
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FROM:
Travis Walker, Chief of Police
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council approve and authorize the Mayor to sign the Second Amendment to Professional Services Agreement by and between Cathedral City and Desert Hot Springs for Public Safety dispatching services.
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BACKGROUND:
In June of 2007 Cathedral City and Desert Hot Springs Police Departments agreed to have professional dispatching services provided by the City of Cathedral City. On November 6, 2007, these dispatching services commenced with Cathedral City Police assuming full dispatching services for the Desert Hot Springs Police Department.
These services have grown over the last 10 years due to additional sworn personnel and non-sworn personnel being employed, calls for service increasing, as well as specialty teams being created and increases in technology in Desert Hot Springs. The partnership that has been formed by the two police departments over the last ten years by joining Dispatch Centers has enabled both organizations to provide quality dispatching to our community members and the men and women of the Desert Hot Springs and the Cathedral City Police Department's respectively.
The contracted communication services will include transferring medical and fire service calls to the CalFire Department, who provides fire protection to the community of Desert Hot Springs. Services will include the facilitation of radio communication between law enforcement units and allied public safety agencies operating with the City of Desert Hot Springs. The Communication Center will also provide National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) and California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) access to the Desert Hot Springs Police units in the field. Additionally, the proposal includes the digital recording of all D...
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