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Taylor Announces House Approval of Federal Appropriations for TPD
The United States House of Representatives on Thursday, June 18,
passed the FY10 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill that
will serve to assist local law enforcement and crime prevention by
providing federal funding to related programs of merit and
need.
Among those programs receiving funding in the bill, the Tulsa
Police Department has been appropriated $200,000 for its Law
Enforcement Interoperability/Regional Expansion Project. This plan
will serve to update the department's outdated criminal records
management system and implement a wireless broadband network to
help improve the gathering, sharing, and dissemination of criminal
information and intelligence within the department and among other
law enforcement agencies in the region. Following the recent
implementation of COMPSTAT, an intelligence-based policing model,
TPD is a leader in use technology for public safety.
"I commend Chief Ron Palmer, the Tulsa Police Department, Chief
Technology Officer Ben Stout and his team for creating a technology
plan that will move this region forward in improving and upgrading
our public safety systems and communications," said Mayor Kathy
Taylor. "In addition, the work of our City of Tulsa Governmental
Affairs Director Stuart McCalman, as well as the support and
leadership provided by Rep. John Sullivan in Congress, were
critical in getting this funding approved by the House."
"It's a credit to the technology plan put forward by the Tulsa
Police Department and approved by Mayor Taylor that the House of
Representatives included this funding in the final bill", said
McCalman..
The House will now wait on the Senate to pass its own version of
this legislation. Once that occurs, the two versions will be
resolved in a legislative conference and once final passage occurs
in both chambers, the legislation will then be sent to the
President to be signed into law.
