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Council approves $1.3 million purchase to migrate police dispatch consoles to Pinellas County radio system
Summary
Council unanimously approved a $1,303,879 purchase order for 12 Motorola dispatch consoles and a NICE logging interface to migrate Clearwater’s dispatch consoles toward interoperability with the Pinellas County radio backbone, a move staff said will reduce long-term maintenance costs.
Clearwater City Council on March 17 approved a purchase order to Motorola Solutions for $1,303,879 to buy 12 dispatch consoles and a NICE logging interface to integrate the city's dispatch center with the Pinellas County radio system.
City Manager Dan Slaughter explained the decision as part of a broader evaluation of the city's land-mobile radio system. For decades Clearwater operated on an L3Harris backbone; Pinellas County operates on Motorola. Slaughter said staff reviewed the costs of continuing to upgrade and maintain Clearwater’s independent system versus migrating console operations to the county backbone and…
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