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Committee approves Homeland Security grant to buy replacement bomb robot after long service life of current unit
Summary
The committee approved a Homeland Security grant allowing MPD to obtain a modern large‑scale bomb robot; the existing primary robot was described as 22 years old and intermittently inoperable, and the new robot will be interoperable with county and state squads.
Milwaukee Police Department Bomb Squad Sergeant Izzo told the committee the department's primary large bomb robot is roughly 22 years old and had been out of service intermittently; the squad has a smaller secondary robot but sought a modern, interoperable replacement funded by a Wisconsin Homeland Security grant (file 241364).
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