Over the next three years, the Cobb County Police Department’s in-car and body-worn camera systems and Video Evidence Management System will be replaced and maintained.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners approved a $3,795,860 contract on Dec. 16 with Utility Associates, Inc.
The first-year cost is $2,691,820 and $552,020 for each of the two remaining years.
This total cost includes all required hardware, software, licensing, customer training and support and unlimited cloud storage.
This information comes from a Dec. 16 memo from Interim Department of Public Safety Director/Fire Chief Randy Crider, Police Chief Tim Cox and Information Services Director Sharon Stanley.
Utility Associates will provide four vouchers for uniform retrofit for the 512 officers assigned a body camera.
Also, Utility Associates will provide two outer-body, camera-carry vests or three shirts for each police officer.
However, all subsequent uniform retrofit expenses required for new hires, damage or wear and required alterations related to unit transfers will be the responsibility of the department.
In future years, these expenses will be absorbed by the department uniform budget.
At the end of the third year of the agreement with Utility Associates, the department will be expected to refresh hardware and renegotiate pricing at that time for the software, licensing, support and cloud storage.
Since 2010, the in-car/body-worn cameras and Video Evidence Management System have been in place.
While there have been some improvements over the last eight years, according to the memo, the industry has grown and there are new technical and hardware offerings that provide additional functionality and services above and beyond the current systems.
Cloud technology is one element needed to address the storage and backup of all videos.
The complete replacement of the aging in-car cameras requires about 509 systems.
For the current body-worn cameras, their complete deployment and replacement will require 512 systems.
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