Grants To Pay for Shelby PD's New Guns, Security Updates

Through a series of grants, The Shelby Township Police Department secured more than $100,000 in new equipment and security updates.

The Board of Trustees unanimously approved three motions made by acting Chief Roland Woelkers Tuesday evening to move forward with the new purchases.

The department will receive 69 new Generation Four Glock 22 pistols. The department will sell the department’s Generation Three Glocks to CMP Distributors and in return it will receive updated pistols for a cost of $10,971.

A 2010 Jag Grant will cover $10,518 of the purchase leaving the township to pay $453 for the department’s new guns.

Woelkers said the department has been using the Glock pistols -- not the same guns, but the same model -- since the 1980s and has had great success with the brand.

A COPS Technology Grant will cover the cost of new IP Video Surveillance Systems for the new police department.

Interstate Security won the contract with the lowest bid at $52,744.

The COPS Technology Grant will also fund a new DSX Access Control system for the new police building and on the Township’s boardroom and treasurer’s office

The readers, which will replace keys, will cost $41,125. The whole amount is covered by the COPS grant.

Interstate Security, which installed card readers at other township buildings, will install the readers.