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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA
REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA ITEM
Report: Police Department Real Time Intelligence Center (RTIC) unified data platform.
1. Resolution to dispense with competitive bidding and authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into a 5-year agreement with Peregrine Technologies Inc. for the integration, training, and maintenance/support in the amount of $590,000 plus a 10% contingency for a total amount not to exceed $649,000.
2. Resolution of Appropriation
COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Action Item
Approved for July 9th 2024 calendar
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Police Department seeks to enter into a five-year agreement with Peregrine Technologies Inc. to provide a real time data visualization platform to integrate a broad range of existing and evolving technologies. The platform will provide a single point of access to view and analyze large amounts of real time and historical data from various sources to enhance situational awareness, which will allow Real Time Intelligence Center personnel to deploy and utilize resources more efficiently and effectively. 2{{section.number}}c
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RECOMMENDATION
Approve the Resolution to dispense with competitive bidding authorizing the City Manager to enter into a 5-year agreement with Peregrine Technologies Inc. in a not to exceed amount of $649,000 and a Resolution of Appropriation.
ANALYSIS
City Council recently approved building a Real Time Information Center (RTIC) for use at the Police Department. During the Police Department’s research of other RTIC’s, and through conversations with RTIC experts and current users, it became clear that to fully leverage technology, a platform would be needed that would ingest all data sources, both real time and historical, into one centralized system. Currently, data is housed in multiple databases including Central Square (our current CAD and RMS system), Flock (current/future cameras and license plate reading technology), AXON/Evidence.com (body worn cameras, in-car cameras, taser technology, drone viewing capabilities), Veritone (RIPA) and IA PRO. Having to search for information in all these databases makes gathering historical data, statistical information, and real time sources, cumbersome and inefficient.
Peregrine Technologies Inc., is a real-time decision and operation management platform which centralizes and organizes historical and real-time data, making it readily accessible and actionable. This single point of access allows for enhanced situational awareness and officer safety thus allowing for more efficient and effective responses to real time operations and historical data gathering. Additionally, the system tracks and identifies crime trends allowing for a more focused deployment of resources. This system is integral to Police’s Real Time Intelligence Center (RTIC) and allows other users across the department to instantly access vital information for investigations and statistical analysis, further leveraging a progressive approach to using technology to protect Glendale, preserve trust, and maximize potential.
Peregrine Technologies is a platform that will bring together all the data, both real time and historical, under one centralized location in a user-friendly manner and with a proven track record. Peregrine will also increase accountability and transparency by allowing the Police Department to measure data more accurately and present it in an organized fashion to be shared with our community.
Peregrine Technologies has a performance history, vetted by numerous agencies, and offers the following key capabilities that other vendors do not.
Proprietary Algorithms that will enable automatic and auditable deduplication and merging of data, such as person records. This ensures automatically clean and reliable data without the need to edit or change the source documents.
Proprietary Ontology (link/relationship analysis) purpose built for law enforcement data.
This allows the Police Department to automatically establish connections and relationships between data elements across disparate systems that are otherwise likely to be missed.
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Fully Integrated Search, Map, Link Analysis, Reporting and Dashboarding - The only solution on the market that offers a fully integrated set of user-facing applications for search, map-based analysis, link analysis, reporting and dashboarding that allow for seamless movement of data between those applications without the need to export and import data manually. Additionally, Peregrine is the only solution that offers desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile device accessible versions of those integrated applications so that they can be accessed by authorized users whenever and wherever they are needed.
STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
N/A
FISCAL IMPACT
The Peregrine Technologies Inc. 5-year contract will cost $649,000, with $100,000 in the first year, which was not included as a part of the FY 2024-25 budget. Therefore, staff is requesting for an appropriation of $100,000 from the Police Department’s Asset Forfeiture Fund. The appropriation request is outlined below:
Requesting Appropriation
Amount From (Account
String)
To (Account String) Funding Source
$100,000 GL: 24211-2600-
GPD-0000
PL: N/A
GL: 43110-2600-
GPD-0020
PL: G65007
Asset Forfeiture
Fund – Contractual
Services
The contract’s outer years funding will be requested through the Citywide Annual Budget process.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (CEQA/NEPA)
The action being considered does not constitute a “project” within the meaning of the CEQA pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(a) as it has no potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonable foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment.
CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
See Exhibit A
ALTERNATIVES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Alternative 1: The City Council may elect not to authorize the Police Department to dispense with competitive bidding for an agreement with Peregrine Technologies Inc. for the integration, training and maintenance/support to fully leverage technology within the Real Time Intelligence Center (RTIC), which would make gathering historical data, statistical information, and real time sources cumbersome and inefficient.
Alternative 2: The City Council may consider any other alternative not proposed by staff. 4{{section.number}}c
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ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
Submitted by:
Manuel Cid, Police Chief
Prepared by:
Manuel Fernandez, Police Lieutenant
Sean Riley, Police Lieutenant
Approved by:
Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager
EXHIBITS/ATTACHMENTS
Exhibit A – Campaign Disclosure