Jurisdiction: City of Hawthorne, CA Department: Hawthorne Police Dept
Allocated Funding: $66,875.00
Technology Upgrades and Advancements for increased surveillance capabilities, communications, command post, and emergency medical response
Program Narrative
During the last year the City of Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Police Department have been met with some major organizational changes. We have a new City Manager and a new Chief of Police, and our current direction is to update our technological capabilities in select operational areas and update internal departmental communications to become more efficient and therefore provide a better service to the community.
The Hawthorne Police Department has recently made some major advancements in this area and would like to use the allocated funds from this grant to further that mission and provide our personnel with updated technologies that will enhance the service we can provide. Through a significant internal reorganization of resources and the creation of a special operations bureau, we now have an organizational structure that allows specialized personnel to target violent crime and criminals through the use of upgraded technology. The areas of technological upgrades and advancements are in way that we: conduct surveillance, communicate during live incidents, and provide a medical support to our own personnel and those that we serve.
