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Police chief seeks technology investments and expands mental-health support for officers
Summary
Fishers Police Department briefed the committee on a budget increase driven by five‑year contracts for body cameras, rising humane-society fees and investments in intelligence-led policing, license-plate readers, drones and mental-health contracts for officers.
The police chief told the finance committee the department’s budget increases reflect rising contract costs, humane-society fee increases and an intentional move toward technology-enabled, intelligence-led policing.
“If they're healthy, then we can be healthy when we respond to the community,” the police chief said while describing an expanded mental-health program for officers and a contract with ProTeam Tactical Mental Health to provide rapid access to counseling after critical incidents.
Why it matters: the department argued investments in technology…
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