BURBANK : Police Command Post Completed
The Burbank Police Department’s new mobile command post should be delivered within two weeks, Lt. Bob Giles said Friday.
The $140,000 vehicle, which will replace a 15-year-old trailer that police use for special events and in emergency situations, was finished Thursday by a Wisconsin company and is on the way to an International Assn. of Police Chiefs conference in St. Louis. Giles said the new command post will be on display as the first such piece of equipment to come off the production line of Lynch Display Vans of Burlington.
The city used money and personal assets seized in local drug raids to pay for the new command post.
The new command post is expected to arrive in Burbank on Oct. 25 or 26.
The trailer police now use can take three to four hours to set up. The new command post will be operational as soon as it is driven to the scene, which could be anything from a hazardous waste spill to a major fire.
“It should be operational just by flipping a switch,” Giles said.
Without a mobile command center, police at the scene would have to relay messages through the central dispatcher or use cellular phones.
Giles said it took 120 days to build the 32-foot-long command post.
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