File #: 21-2891   
Type: Payment Ordinance Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 12/1/2021 Final action: 12/1/2021
Title: Transcend Robotics Inc.

Title

Transcend Robotics Inc.

 

Description

For $58,300.00 in payment authority to purchase a robotic multi-mission arm and remote burn safe system for the Phoenix Police Department (PPD). The PPD’s Special Assignments Unit is responsible for handling all potentially violent incidents, particularly involving barricaded subjects. Armed subjects often barricade and hide inside structures and fail to comply with officer’s commands to surrender. The multi-mission arm and remote burn safety system will be mounted on the previously purchased Vantage Robot. These attachments will assist officers in locating armed subjects by allowing officers to remotely open doors with knobs, grab and move suspicious debris, and precisely deliver gas munitions. The remote capabilities and proven success of these attachments are essential to provide maximum safety to officers, suspects, and the public.