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Arvada leaders outline 'Arctic' real‑time center, drone‑first‑responder program and funding plan
Summary
Arvada police presented the Arvada Real Time Information Center ("Arctic") and a related Axon/Skydio drone‑first‑responder contract that bundles cameras, docking stations and software; staff described emergency uses, a phased rollout, funding sources and planned community transparency meetings.
Chief Brady presented the Arvada Real Time Information Center, or "Arctic," as a centralized hub to deliver real‑time video and data to first responders and other city departments.
The Arctic, Brady said, will pull feeds from more than 400 city cameras, traffic cameras, automated license‑plate readers and officers' body‑worn cameras into two workstations in the former dispatch center. "It will help improve our situational awareness," Brady said, "It'll give us quicker information, and more accurate information going into a scene." He told the council the April 21 contract with Axon includes drone hardware (Skydio DFRs), docking stations and the FUSIS software to manage flights and evidence workflows.
Why it matters: Brady described multiple emergency‑response uses for the system — wildfire smoke detection…
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