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Sheriff's office seeks grant funding for vests, adds peer-support dispatch specialist and restructures BTAM staffing
Oakland County Board of Commissioners · December 3, 2025
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Summary
The sheriff's office applied for a federal bulletproof vest grant, described OCHN-funded peer-support and a dispatch specialist position tied to recent mass-incident responses, and outlined a personnel restructuring to sustain the countywide behavioral threat assessment team amid hiring challenges.
Dan Pierce, the sheriff's fiscal officer, told commissioners the department applied for the usual federal Bulletproof Vest Partnership program (a 5-year replacement cycle) and expected an award smaller than the $178,000 requested. Pierce also described new OCHN funding to…
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