SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve a renewal of the Tampa Bay Multi-Agency Gang Task Force Memorandum of Understanding and the accompanying Mutual Aid Agreement for a five-year period commencing upon execution and expiring on May 30, 2025 and authorize the Chief of Police to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
Mutual aid agreements between law enforcement agencies are authorized by Chapter 23, Florida Statutes, for rendering voluntary assistance of a routine law enforcement nature to one another across jurisdictional lines and providing operational assistance.
The principal goal of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to provide for an orderly and equitable plan for the distribution of assets forfeited as a result of any Multi-agency gang task force activation and to provide for the disbursement of any such assets or funds as outlined in the MOU.
The Mutual Aid Agreement joins agencies together to form a task force whereby each agency may request and render law enforcement assistance to the other to include, but not necessarily limited to civil disturbances, large protest demonstrations, concerts and parades related to gang and disruptive group activity, and gang and disruptive group related crime.
Each agency shall have a representative on the Multi-Agency Gang Task Force steering committee.
Each participating agency is subject to the terms and conditions in the Mutual Aid Agreement.