Summary
The funding of any equipment for law enforcement is a challenge especially to thermal imaging. While rapidly gaining attention and acceptance, its usefulness in policing is relatively undiscovered giving it mere chances to capture grant programs. Lord presents several practical steps on how to fund thermal imagers.
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Six Steps to Funding Thermal Imagers
The funding of any equipment for law enforcement is a challenge. Operating expense budgets simply cannot absorb major outlays for nontraditional capital equipment. Funding through extraordinary sources becomes the rule of the day. Those sources may be asset seizure funds, private benefactors or grant programs.
Grant programs often appear to be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, i.e., they are easy to see, but seemingly impossible to capture. The insult added to inj...See the full content of this document
