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Police chief asks for mobile command vehicle; council approves purchase
Summary
New Police Chief Keith Grant reported rising citations and recent drug arrests and asked council to authorize buying one used vehicle configured as a mobile command/crime-scene unit; the council approved the purchase.
Police Chief Keith Grant told the council the department has increased enforcement activity and several recent drug arrests and described limits in current vehicles for processing crime scenes. He said the department has one detective, Cody Carpenter, who uses an SUV but that an additional, purpose-equipped used vehicle would allow on-scene command and evidence processing without returning repeatedly to the station.
Chief Grant urged urgency: "every second a life could be taken," he said, describing the operational need for a mobile command post that would carry lights, crime-scene supplies and secure storage so evidence could be processed at larger or overlapping incidents. He said the department was asking to use one of two budgeted vehicle slots and that suitable used units from an out-of-state vendor were priced in the mid-30-thousand-dollar range.
A council member moved to authorize the purchase; the motion was seconded and carried. The transcript records a verbal "all in favor" and the chair’s announcement that the motion carried; no roll-call tally appears in the record.
Council did not specify a final vendor in the meeting; purchasing will proceed through staff consistent with the approved budget allocation.
