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San Angelo police seek $250,000 portable building, evidence consolidation and staffing funds
Summary
Police Chief outlined requests including a roughly $250,000 portable building to house fragmented patrol and evidence operations, a district‑mapping study, an external evidence audit, ammunition and body‑armor funding, and restoration of sanctioned officer counts.
San Angelo Police Chief Scott Griffith (presenting the department’s items at the Aug. 5 budget workshop) asked the council to consider a package of one‑time and ongoing budget items intended to improve operations, evidence storage and patrol capacity.
Chief Griffith described current space shortages: “We are in a space, of a size of a department for about 45 men. We have a total allotted number of 174, which I'll be asking to go back up to 180,” he said. The department…
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