2023 ANNUAL COMMUNITY GUIDE
Southlake’s public safety departments working to use technology, new training
SOUTHLAKE UPGRADING RADIOS
Southlake will spend nearly $1 million on radio equipment for the department of public safety. The purchases, which were already in the scal year 2022-23 budget, will upgrade radios in police and re units.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
82 portable radios $750,068 Body-worn camera video storage $66,000 5G cradlepoints that provide internet access inside police vehicles $78,000
The Southlake Fire Depart- ment is focusing on recruit- ment e orts for employees and implementing new tech- nology in 2023, while the police department is training for active shooters and work- ing to equip its schools with school resource o cers. Fire Chief Mike Starr said recruiting and retaining per- sonnel is an “industry-wide concern.” He said re depart- ments across the country are increasing pay and bene ts to attract employees. “In Southlake, we strive to hire quali ed personnel; we want the best of the best,” Starr said. An achievement for the re department in 2022 was its planning for emergencies and technology improvements,
according to Starr. This includes the Emergency Operations Plan, which is a communications plan among the city, media and public in the event of an emergency. For technology, the depart- ment implemented a new Computer Aided Dispatch. Starr said this is a collabo- ration with Keller, Westlake and Colleyville to prioritize and record incident calls and identify the location of responders in the eld. “The implementation of the new CAD system enhances public safety response times, capabilities and overall safety of not only rst responders, but the com- munity,” he said. To Southlake Police Department Chief James
Brandon, the expansion of the SRO program was one of the department’s highlights in 2022. Through Mayor John Hu man’s School Safety Task Force, three additional SRO positions were added along with an additional police cap- tain to oversee the division of 17 o cers. “This is a signi cant step in the continuation of the part- nership between the city of Southlake and Carroll ISD to keep our children safe,” he said. The department also prepared and trained for responding to an active- shooter event. Brandon said all Southlake police o cers completed a reality-based active-shooter training within a CISD school. He said
SOURCE: CITY OF SOUTHLAKE COMMUNITY IMPACT
the department has worked with six churches, 22 busi- nesses and a total of 839 attendees during Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event training. “The most important goal of the [police department] is the safety of our citizens and visitors,” Brandon said. “We accomplish this by hiring the best o cers that we can nd [and] providing them with the best equipment and training possible.”
Approved in a Nov. 1 Southlake City Council meet- ing, the radio communica- tion replacement program will provide upgrades to the police and re departments’ communication units.
For more information, visit communityimpact.com.
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