On Tuesday, a $126,055 grant was approved by City Council for updating public safety in Bethel.
This includes a Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping update for our region, two courses in Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) for the Bethel Police Department and village law enforcement, and radio repeaters for the Police and Fire Departments.
“We always need radios, radios are in heavy use all day long. They get dropped, broken, lost, damaged,” said John Sargent, the City of Bethel's grant manager. “Sometimes they can’t be reprogrammed, and sometimes they just update a model. And we have to update our models to match the new updates or we can’t function like that.”