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Waukesha police awarded $139,600 CPD microgrant to speed cellphone forensics
Summary
The Finance Committee unanimously approved acceptance of a $139,600 2025 Community Policing Development microgrant to fund CellBright forensic software for multi-device analysis; the tool will be free to the department for two years, with estimated ongoing costs of about $46,000 annually afterward.
Assistant Chief Tom Wagner of the Waukesha Police Department told the Finance Committee on Oct. 28 that the department received a $139,600 Community Policing Development microgrant to pay for CellBright, a forensic software platform that can process multiple phones and cross‑link data.
Wagner said the system will “process multiple phones and cross link the information” to assist investigations, and that the grant covers the initial two‑year period so there is no…
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