Police Department
Reference: MOU with Colorado State Patrol Regarding the Automated License Plate Reader
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Jane Bais DiSessa, City Manager
Prepared By: Frank Acosta, Investigations Commander
Date Prepared: June 6, 2021
PURPOSE
To enter into a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Brighton and the Colorado State Patrol
BACKGROUND
The City of Brighton has seen an increase of motor vehicle thefts over the last 2 years. The metro area has shown an increase of about 70% and some of those vehicles have been stolen from/found in Brighton. There are stolen vehicles being driven around the city on a daily basis. The police department needs a tool to assist them in the fight against Auto Theft. The police department has attempted to obtain a stationary Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) through a grant for the last 2 years without success. This year, the Brighton Police Department was awarded a grant for over $66,000 to purchase an ALPR. Part of the grant requirement is that the police department to share our data with the rest of the metro area. The Colorado State Patrol has a server that can download all of our data for storage. There is no charge for this use, we need to only sign an MOU with them regarding our downloading of information to their server. This is the MOU that I am requesting to be signed.
Examples of the value of the ALPR:
* In 2011, the police department was investigating a homicide that occurred in an apartment and the suspect drove away in the victim's vehicle. We had 2 mobile ALPR's in patrol cars at that time. An officer driving one of these cars was able to find the victim's vehicle the next day in a parking lot behind a local shopping center. We obtained video from a nearby business, we were able to identify the suspect in that case which led to a successful arrest and prosecution of the suspect. Those ALPR cars are no longer in service as the technology and e...
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