Chief Hurtt's Thursday press conference
It appears Chief Hurtt held a press conference Thursday touching on a range of issues:
At a Thursday press conference, Chief Harold Hurtt said the force was doing extensive recruiting all over the country to beef up the staff.
The N.E.T.T. program used about 84,000 man hours, using $3 million.
About 2,800 people have been arrested as a result of the program, which targets areas that are hot spots for crime.Chief Hurtt said the red light camera contract was still taking place, and they are currently testing tasers with audio-video cameras. They cost $400 more.
He also spoke on the shooting at an HISD school bus. He said he met with HISD on Thursday, but that the TAKS testing is slowing down the investigation.
Chief Hurtt said HPD was not involved in Wednesday's immigration sting.
I had hoped that there would be some stories posted today expounding on all those tidbits KHOU-11's News Blog reported, but all I can find so far is this from KUHF-88.7 on the Taser cameras:
In 2004, the department bought almost 4000 Tasers that don't have the audio and visual capabilities. Since then, they've been used hundreds of times to subdue suspects without using lethal force. Hurtt says it's important to have a visual record of Taser incidents to make sure officers are adhering to department policy when they use them.
"We see that as very valuable in being able to record the voice exchange between the suspect and the officer as well as observing the suspect's behavior prior to the deployment of the Taser."
Hurtt says it would cost about $1.5 million dollars to add Tasers with cameras to the force, something he says the department can't afford right now.
According to KPRC-2's story from earlier this week, the camera wouldn't start recording until the Taser was turned on, which would seem to leave very little prior behavior to be recorded.
And everyone who's surprised that HPD didn't participate in Wednesday's roundup of illegal immigrants, raise your hand.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 04/21/06 07:37 AM | Print |
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