For City Council Meeting [April 9, 2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to Approve the Purchase of Bulk Winchester Ammunition From Dooley Enterprises, Inc. in the Amount of $30,579.45.
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BACKGROUND:
Police Officers, by way of their profession, are required to maintain a high level of readiness to perform their duties in the protection of the community they serve. Maintaining that readiness requires constant training to include weapons training and more specifically fire arms training and qualifications.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION:
The Rialto Police Department is dedicated to the service of its community, part of which is maintaining a high state of readiness through constant training and development. Weapons qualification and training are currently done on a quarterly basis, with occasional updates and remedial training. Pursuant to our policy and standards a variety of calibers are used in both our duty weapons, back up weapons and long-range weapons. To accommodate 112 sworn officers, the Rialto Police Department needs to keep a large amount of ammunition on hand in various calibers to meet their training needs.
Previously the Rialto Police Department relied on several vendors and ordered through each in much smaller amounts. However, due to recent changes in state laws and conflicts around the world, the ability to obtain ammunition to meet our needs has become increasingly difficult by way of low inventories and extended delay in shipments. These delays in training ammunition forces the Police Department to either delay necessary training or force us to utilize duty ammunition at a much higher price than training ammunition. In a desire to avoid these delays, the Department determined that purchasing in bulk was the best approach.
Piggybacking Purchasing
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