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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 15, 2020 Page 7 even had dash cams back then when not a lot of the departments had them. We actually had VCR's in the trunk hooked up to the cameras. Everything was recorded. All of the officers on the departmentareused to having these cameras onus all of the time. So, it' -s not anything that's new to us. We are used to it. They have been very successful for us. The next thing I want to talk about is use of force. We have a use of force policy, what we call Response to Resistance, that's compliant with all recommendations and regulations. It covers everything. It includes an addendum that covers tasers and the use of force for our auxiliaries. It's a comprehensive policy. It has been around for a while. Everybody's very familiar with it. We review it at least annually. The other policies we have in place about Bias -Free Policing and about the use of force and use of the body cams. They are all in place. Training is something that we made a priority beginning in 2020. We always had training but we made it as a strategic plan we put together for 2020. We made it a priority. Already, even with the COVID-19, a lot of things have been cancelled, the officers have still taken over 100 courses, most of them on-line. That training has included procedural justice, use of force and implicit bias training. In January, we held training on applying restraints and talking about positional asphyxia which was probably what Mr. Floyd died from. We have taken training very seriously. We are going to load up the rest of the year with as much training as we can get done. I just wanted to cover all of these points. I do want to say again that I am very proud of our officers, our dispatchers, auxiliaries, administrative staff. We have gone from the COVID-19 to a lot of the social unrest that has been going on. We received a ton of support from the community. I welcome any questions. Last year we did an open house. I hope to have an open house again this year when things start to open up so people can come to the station and see our equipment, meet our folks and ask any questions they want. Again, I wanted to thank our officers, the rest of our staff and the community for being very supportive during all of this. Thank you. Council President Schutt stated, thank you, Chief. There were no other Department Head reports submitted. Committee Reports: Council President Schutt stated, there are no Committee reports this evening. OLD BUSINESS Council President Schutt stated, there is no Old Business for consideration this evening.