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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute the Fourteenth Amendment to Agreement No. 23214 with Compu-Dyne - Public Safety & Justice, Inc., (formerly known as Tiburon, Inc.), adding the Long Beach Airport to the Police Department's Computer-Aided Dispatch System in an amount not to exceed $21,000. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
On October 5, 1993, the City Council authorized Agreement No. 23214 with Tiburon,
Inc., now Compu-Dyne - Public Safety & Justice, Inc., (Compu-Dyne) for the
purchase of Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System
(RMS) software and maintenance for the Police and Fire Departments. That
Agreement has been amended several times to provide for customization of
software, annual maintenance, and to add maintenance for the system used by the
City of Signal Hill.
The Compu-Dyne CAD software is a mission-critical software application that is used
by the Police Department to process calls for service from the public and manage
field resources. The calls for service and field activity data captured by CAD is also
used for planning activities relative to staffing, crime analysis and homeland security.
The Long Beach Fire Department and the Signal Hill Police Department also
participate in the Long Beach Police Department CAD System.
The Department of Public Works, Airport Bureau, in conjunction with the Technology
Services Department and the Police Department, desires to enable this same
dispatching capability to support its security operations. The implementation of CAD
will coincide with the completion of the Airport's upgrade of its Security Access
Control System. It is anticipated that this project will be completed by the end of
January 2006.
Currently, Police and Security Officers assigned to the Airport use two separate radio
channels to communicate with Police and Airport dispatch and field units. The Airport
also manages security operations with a non-automated process utilizing handwritten
logs to track calls fo...
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