City Council
MEETING DATE: 3/25/2015
TITLE:
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Ratification of Desert Hot Springs Dispatch Services Contract
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FROM:
George Crum, Chief of Police
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council approve a 42 month contract to continue providing Public Safety dispatching services to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department.
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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 7 1/2 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 along the way with the citywide camera system in Desert Hot Springs. The partnership that has been formed by the two police departments over the last eight 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.
Towards the end of the five year contract Desert Hot Springs issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) to invite proposals from other qualified Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to provide dispatching services. Cathedral City was the only RFP that was submitted to the City of Desert Hot Springs. In October of 2012 an amendment to the contract to extend the dispatch services to June 30, 2014 was negotiated. This extension would allow for the City of Desert Hot Springs to gain a better perspective to determine the viability of Desert Hot Springs providing municipal police services to their community or a contract with the Riverside County Sh...
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