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process for acquiring equipment covered by the bill. See Attachment 2 for the draft Military Equipment Policy. AB 481 also requires an annual report on the police department's use of military equipment to be presented to the City Council and made publicly available. When it is unclear whether equipment should be categorized as "military" per the law, staff has erred on the side of transparency and included the equipment. Staff anticipates fulfilling the annual update as a component of its broader bi-annual update in March of each year. MILITARY EQUIPMENT DEFINITIONS: The following is an overview of the items used by the Pleasanton Police Department considered to be military equipment as defined in AB 481: "Unmanned, remotely piloted, powered aerial or ground vehicles" The police department owns two remotely operated robots with mounted cameras. The robots are used to search buildings during high-risk searches so that suspects can be identified and located without placing officers into dangerous or confrontational situations. These tools prevent injury to officers, suspects and the public. Robots are only used during searches considered to be high risk. The police department has utilized the Alameda County Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Team for investigation of suspicious or potentially explosive devices. The EOD Team utilizes remotely operated robots specifically built for explosive detection and removal. An increasingly common request by the police department is for use of aerial drones operated by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. Alameda County drones have been used on search and rescue operations, warrant service operations and during searches for outstanding suspects of crimes. These are strictly surveillance drones and are not weaponized. When a suspect is believed to be hiding inside a building, drones can do preliminary interior searches without sending officers inside. Drones are more capable of navigating cluttered areas than ground-based robots. This greatly increases safety to officers and suspects by reducing the likelihood of confrontation. "Mine-resistant ambush-protected(MRAP) vehicles or armored personnel carriers. However, police versions of standard consumer vehicles are specifically excluded." An MRAP is a specifically designed military vehicle not utilized by the Pleasanton Police Department. The police department does operate an Armored Rescue Vehicle (ARV) built specifically for use by first responders. The exact vehicle owned was built by The Armored Group and the model was named the Ballistic Armored Tactical Transport (BATT). Although that is the model named assigned by the manufacturer, it is an armored vehicle designed to be driven into dangerous areas and to rescue civilians or police officers. The vehicle was designated as the Armored Rescue Vehicle (ARV) Page 4 of 6