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Consider a memorandum/resolution authorizing the expenditure of federal forfeiture funds and award Bid 23-33, 3D Crime Scene Scanner to Collision Forensics Solutions, LLC., in the amount of $138,148.44.
Summary
DATE: July 18, 2023
TO: Kent Cagle, City Manager
FROM: Pedro Lopez, Chief of Police
SUBJECT: Purchase of a crime scene laser scanner with federal forfeiture funds
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
The Criminal Investigation Division of the Killeen Police Department is responsible for gathering evidence, processing crime scenes, and providing professional courtroom testimony in criminal trials. Personnel use different methods and technologies to do so. One such piece of technology is an obsolete 3D scanner to document crime scenes.
The Police Department with the help of the Purchasing Division released Bid 23-33, 3D Crime Scene Scanner on June 12, 2023. Only one bid was received in the amount of $138,148.44 from Collision Forensic Solutions, LLC.
Collision Forensic Solutions, LLC meets the specifications outlined in the bid, bidding the Lecia 3D Laser Scanner (Lecia RTC360 HDS Laser Scanner) to replace the obsolete model. The Lecia 3D Laser Scanner's advanced technology empowers crime scene investigators to accurately capture and document every detail of a scene, enabling them to fully document a crime, minimizing human error, increasing accuracy, and improving courtroom understanding of crime scenes. This is done by combining pin-point accurate laser scanning with high-definition visualization tools, 3D reality capture improves understanding and documentation of crime scenes and increases efficiency and productivity both in the field and the office. Avoiding scene degradation is a key issue in working towards convictions. Using this technology, the scene can be frozen in time, providing jurors with an immersive environment as close as possible to reality, to view and explore aiding their visualization of the course of events. Not only wil...
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