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Deputy chief outlines staffing, new technology and care-team operations at Community Police Board meeting
Summary
Deputy Chief Matt Cown told the Community Police Board the Ithaca Police Department expects several hires and some retirements this year, plans to add in-car video to Axon storage, and described the current care-team assignment and reporting gaps the board requested staff to fill.
Deputy Chief Matt Cown told the Ithaca City Community Police Board that the police department had recently promoted Julian Byrd to sergeant and rehired officer Dan Bechtold, and that the department expects a small cohort of recruits to enter the academy late next month. He said there are approximately 56–57 sworn officers with about nine vacancies; the department also faces five to six possible retirements this year.
Cown described planned technology and evidence-storage changes: the department is moving to Axon for body-worn, in-car and other digital evidence and retention; he said the record-storage migration is intended to centralize digital evidence on Axon rather than city servers. He answered board concerns…
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