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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Lt. William Hull / Cmdr. Jack Fichtel
DATE: 12/29/17
SUBJECT:
Resolution to purchase eight work stations to be placed in the Special Operations Group Office at the Aurora Police Department to house federal task force officers.
PURPOSE:
To request authorization from the Aurora City Council to purchase eight work stations to be placed in the Special Operations Group Office at the Aurora Police Department to house federal task force officers.
BACKGROUND:
The Aurora Police Department for many years has been teamed with our federal law enforcement partners to work cooperatively in a task force role to combat drug and gang related crimes. These officers, primarily from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and from the Office of Homeland Security are currently housed in an independent office within the Aurora Police Headquarters facility. This office is currently equipped with eight workstation, which is specifically designed, constructed, and erected to the parameters of the work space. The department is seeking to re-locate these task force officers (TFO) into the office of the Aurora Police Special Operations Group (SOG). The task force officers and SOG work closely together and often share information, much of which is confidential. It is imperative that the TFOs have a secure work environment and the SOG office presently has a significant amount of open and unused space to accommodate this function.
The current task force office will be used for housing a new and innovative social media unit. The law enforcement community has found that being able to gather timely and relevant information from open source networks and putting that information into chronological, easily understandable format is critical for early resolution and intelligence. The personal that will comprise the unit will be pulled from existing assignments and will utilize this work area
DISCUSSION:
The Aurora Police Headquarters wa...
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