Cathedral City Police Department Specialized Equipment INVENTORY • Unmanned, remotely piloted powered aerial vehicles
• Search and locate reported missing children or at-risk adults • Search and Rescue Operations to locate lost or Injured hikers A law enforcement specific application involving Aerial DRONES are used for open terrain or large field searches as a force-multiplier to assist in high-risk apprehensions of armed or violent suspects. Aerial drones can be used as an interior search tool to locate suspects barricaded inside a residence or commercial structure. • Non-handheld battering rams, slugs, and breaching apparatuses that are explosive in nature • Explosive breaching tools
• Avon frangible shotgun ammunition is used to breach doors and points of entry on fortified doors or structures. The rounds are used to impact door hinges, doorknobs, and locks • Assault Weapons defined under PC 30510 & PC 30515
• Inventory includes AR style fully automatic rifles and select fire subcompact rifles. • Semi-automatic Benelli shotguns
• Increased accuracy and precision at long range distances • Flashbang grenades and explosive breaching tools
• Light Sound Diversionary Device (LSDD- "Flashbangs") are diversionary devices used to minimize risk to all parties through the temporary distraction or disorientation of armed and violent suspects that pose significant danger to the officers and community. The effects of the LSDD reduce a suspect's reactionary capabilities and allow for momentary disorientation, which creates a tactical advantage. LSDD is a hand delivered device and generally deployed on the exterior of structures
Provides a humane fright of aggressive dogs that pose a threat to officers • Explosive breaching tools are used to breach fortified structures to establish a point of entry. Explosive charges are fashioned to produce little to no fragmentation at the time of detonation. Explosive breaching effectively reduces the time spent overcoming a fortified door or structure. The reduction in time mitigating a hardened structure increasing officer safety and the element of surprise. Blast injuries are reduced by using low yield explosives that mechanically overcome door frames and locking mechanisms. Explosive breaching mandates extensive schooling and certification processes Chemical agents are deployed through various means to include hand delivery and weapon launchable. Munitions are either 37mm or 40mm caliber, shotgun ferret rounds or cannister shotgun launched ordinance. Hand delivered chemical agents are placed in metal burn boxes to reduce fire hazards
• Command and Control Vehicles built or modified to facilitate the operational control and direction of public safety units
, Command vehicles are built in various platforms to include ½ ton pickup chassis, vans, trailers, and RV style configurations. Vehicles are built to better assist in command and control during law enforcement operations, natural disasters, and public safety issues.
Vehicles are designed with additional communication abilities, computers, white boards, lightening, generators, and mission essential supplies
• 40mm projectile launchers
Less lethal 40mm launchers and rubber bullet munitions- Munitions are configured for high and low energy impact. Munitions have the additional benefit as a barrier round for breaking vehicle and residential glass so that chemical munitions can be deployed. 40mm less lethal has been effective in disarming violent suspects, armed suspects, and subject who are suicidal with minimal injury and risk to the person, law enforcement or the public • Bean Bag Launchers
• Less lethal bean bag is utilized through a marked/orange colored easily identifiable less lethal shotgun. The bean bag round is a small led pellet filled munition made of high- density cloth. Bean bag is the predecessor to 40mm less lethal having similar benefits as other less lethal platforms
• Rubber Bullet launchers
• Sting ball grenade launches .38 caliber rubber bullets and are hand delivered. Generalized use in a tactical operation is infrequent in use and deployment. Search warrants, violent combative subjects, or hostage rescue scenarios are criteria for consideration and use against suspects.
• 40mm and 37mm launchers capable of deploying rubber bullet munitions. An effective less lethal tool used routinely with success