Officers with the Jamestown Police Department will have a new look to their uniforms beginning this spring. The Jamestown Police and Fire Committee approved utilizing $12,000 in seized drug money to purchase new shirts and external vests for the uniformed officers of the department at its meeting Wednesday.
The drug seizure money was part of a $74,000 seizure in 2015. All the money had previously been earmarked for development of a law enforcement shooting range.
Scott Edinger, Jamestown police chief, said costs of the law enforcement range were lower than expected and the funds could be used to update the uniforms. The city plans to share an old county gravel pit with other agencies for a law enforcement shooting range.
Edinger said the department’s current ballistic or bulletproof vests, now worn under the shirt, would fit in the shell of the external vest. In addition, much of the equipment, such as spare ammunition and handcuffs, currently carried on the officer’s belt, would be carried in the vest which improves the officer’s comfort.
