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The Police Department will soon be buying new handguns for many of its officers. The City Council on Tuesday approved a $44,600 agreement that will allow officers to finance the purchase of their own gun through the city.
The department will buy 84 Heckler & Koch and Sig-Sauer handguns to replace older firearms. The new guns are the same models used by the department’s 106 sworn officers.
The city will subsidize the purchase with $11,650 in general fund surplus money. The remaining $32,985 will be reimbursed by the officers through payroll-deduction payments spread over a year.
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