Captain Keith Price asked the Board of Commissioners to approve $196,197.31 to equip 12 recently purchased patrol vehicles with push bumpers, cages, consoles, radios, cameras and decal striping. He said 10 of the cars will receive new in-car Getac camera systems and 10 new body-worn cameras will replace aging units.

Price told commissioners the department is requesting Metropolitan Communications as the vendor because the company is local, typically beats out-of-county bidders on price, and offers faster service when a vehicle needs attention. He also said switching to the Getac camera system uses cloud-based storage maintained by the camera vendor and removes the need for a county-hosted video server; the county will pay an annual hosting fee.

Commissioners asked about vendor selection and IT storage; Price answered that local service and cloud hosting drove the recommendation. The board agreed to place the equipment purchase on the consent agenda for the upcoming business meeting.