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The City Council voted unanimously to give $44,842 of the city’s General Fund money to the Police Department to purchase video processing equipment and spike strips and pay police overtime.
The money will be replaced next year when the department receives its yearly supplemental law enforcement funding from the state.
About $5,700 will be used to buy three expandable spike strips, used to puncture the tires of vehicles involved in high-speed pursuits, and video processing equipment needed to make wanted posters and missing-persons fliers.
Police Chief John D. Hensley said that while it is not likely the city, which has had few high-speed chases in recent years, will use the spike strips, the potential is always there, and it’s important that the department be ready.
The majority of the funding, more than $39,000, will pay overtime costs for police to patrol high-traffic areas of the city.
Hensley said officers being paid overtime will work during the evenings and will concentrate on the city’s heaviest traffic areas.
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