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Police chief urges Peregrine AI purchase to free staff time; council weighs trade-off with animal-shelter project manager
Summary
Beaumont police proposed an AI data‑integration subscription to automate database checks and free officer time; the chief said the city negotiated the price to $68,000 per year and offered using current salary savings to cover an initial multi-year purchase, while some council members voiced concern about tapping reserves for shelter staffing.
Beaumont's police department asked the council to authorize a subscription to Peregrine, an AI service the chief said would automate multi-database checks and free officers and records staff for field work.
“We spend approximately 4000 hours a a year checking various databases,” the chief said, explaining that Peregrine can “check that databases all in a measure of seconds.”…
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