Upland Police to purchase new equipment, training
The City Council approved the Upland Fire Department's expenditure plan for the 2011-12 State COPS Grant Fund to purchase new equipment.
The department was allocated $140,821 and will be using it to purchase a stationary license plate reader as well as training, "which will allow our officers to go through scenarios - shoot, don't shoot, use your taser, don't use your taser - type things in hopes to better train the officers and offset the city's liability in civil cases," said Upland Police Chief Jeff Mendenhall during the council meeting on Dec. 12.
The stationary reader will be placed in a commercial complex where robberies often occur, Mendenhall said.
