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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Commander Jack Fichtel
DATE: September 3, 2019
SUBJECT:
Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Aurora Police Department and the Illinois National Guard Counterdrug Task Force.
PURPOSE:
To request authorization from the Aurora City Council to approve a MOU between the City of Aurora Police Department and the Illinois National Guard Counterdrug Task Force.
BACKGROUND:
The Illinois National Guard provides selected local law enforcement agencies with highly trained counter drug field agents to assist, and be a liaison, with other State and Federal law enforcement agencies and to be a resource in gathering information and intelligence on drug operations, as well as providing equipment to assist in the investigations.
DISCUSSION:
The Aurora Police Department will benefit from the equipment and level of training that a National Guard Counterdrug Agent provides. The National Guard Counterdrug Task Force Agent is non-sworn and will not be directly involved in enforcement actions related to the arrest or persons or seizure of property. The agent is to support law enforcement activities.
Examples of the support that the National Guard can provide is electronic media decoding and translation, investigative case and analyst support to include charting, mapping and financial work-ups of targets, communication support, aerial support, which includes aerial reconnaissance to track moving vehicle, suspected drug houses, or other locations that are suspected of drug trafficking. Additionally, they can provide various equipment that is used in narcotic investigations that the Aurora Police Department does not current have, which is a cost saving measure.
There is no financial cost to the Aurora Police Department or the City of Aurora.
IMPACT STATEMENT:
If this project is not approved it will have a detrimental impact on the capabilities of the Aurora Police Department to investigate narcotic ...
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