If the City Council approves, the Atlanta Police Foundation would receive a donation of 100 used police radios to support the group’s “Operation Shield” public-private security partnership.
The Atlanta Police Department has upgraded its Airport Section radios and no longer needs the Motorola XTS5000 radios, according to ordinance documents out of the Council’s Finance/Executive Committee. The radios lack batteries, chargers and antennas and will cost about $245 each to be made operable.
The Police Foundation plans to assign the radios to individuals, such as private security guards, “who have a capacity to provide real-time intelligence to the police department,” a staff memo says.
Operation Shield seeks cooperation between the police and private-sector security for crime prevention and emergency preparedness, according to the program’s website. It was a launched in 2007 with the Atlanta Security Council, Central Atlanta Progress, Midtown Alliance and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District.
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