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Police chief seeks staffing study review and separate work session as city manager’s budget unfunds four positions
Summary
Police Chief Mark Newport told the council the department has rolled out tasers, is preparing to deploy body cameras in June and asked for a dedicated work session after the staffing study is released; he also said the city manager’s budget unfunds four positions the police commission had sought to phase in.
Police Chief Mark Newport told the Portsmouth City Council on Monday that the department has completed training and rollout of new tasers, is preparing to put body cameras into service starting in June, and is continuing training on a new records management system ahead of a hoped‑for fall go‑live.
“We just finished putting together a comprehensive policy, and we will be rolling out the body cam starting in June,” Newport said. He added that the department had completed training on recent taser purchases and that the device itself has already de‑escalated encounters in the street on at least two occasions.
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