To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Tyler Brown, Sheriff
Prepared By:
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Travis Stewart, Captain, Investigations
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Subject:
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2:45 PM *CATPA auto theft prevention grant and LEAGP assistance grant applications.
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Purpose and Request:
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The Sheriff's Office requests the Board of County Commissioners authorize our application to the CATPA (Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority) and LEAGP (Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program) grants.
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Background and Discussion: Over the last few years, auto theft crime in our service area has dramatically increased. With that, the cases that our agency is required to investigate have also continued to rise. Staffing levels however have not kept up with the increase in workload. In an effort to combat this dynamic, we have partnered with The FLOCK Camera Company to get 25 cameras strategically installed throughout the county and City of Centennial to monitor the thoroughfares that lead into and out of our service area. These cameras have proven to be very effective in combating auto theft as they notify deputies in the area of active stolen vehicles and their direction of travel. Although helpful, these cameras are also expensive and cost our agency $75,000/year to maintain. This cost is a heavy burden on our budget and, for 2025, we were able to get seizure funds approved to handle this cost.
Another useful tool we have used to identify suspects and associates involved in auto theft rings is the Nighthawk software tool. This helps us to quickly comb through cellular and social media data to identify wanted subjects and their associates that would otherwise take an investigator hundreds of hours to accomplish. Again, this helpful software comes with a cost of $25,000/year and is a difficult software platform to pay for.
In an effort to help cover the above costs for the coming year, the Investigations Section has applied for the CATPA auto theft prevention ...
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