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A TT ACHMENT A BMW Police Motorcycle or use an officer's assigned motorcycle for training purposes. The mere nature of the training environment is extremely tough on the motorcycles as they are often dropped or involved in low-speed crashes during training scenarios. This fact made it unreasonable to obtain and use a BMW Police Motorcycle for training purposes, as it could not withstand the rigors of training without significant maintenance costs. After over a decade of use, the Kawasaki trainers are in very poor condition and unsafe to ride. Furthermore, the Kawasaki trainers are completely different machines than those the officers utilize on a daily basis for enforcement riding and are no longer available. They do not provide a training environment similar to the environment in which the officers ride and work every day. Effective training mimics real-life conditions. The design and characteristics of the Kawasaki trainers only remotely mimic the BMW in a sense that they are both motorcycles. The CHP recognized this fact and has now adopted the use of an alternative BMW motorcycle that is specially equipped for use at their Motor Academy. Their research now makes it feasible for the Orange Police Department to utilize the same motorcycle without the fear of exorbitant maintenance costs. Goal: To provide a tool on which motor officers can train and maintain perishable skills that closely mimics that which they use in their daily enforcement activities. Obiectives: 1. Obtain one BMW trainer motorcycle that is designed to handle to rigors of training exercises and that mimics the motorcycle on which the officers work. 2. Provide a safer and more realistic training environment and teaching aid for Police Motor Officers. Ouantifiable Performance Measures: 1. Quarterly rider training on a motorcycle similar to that used in daily enforcement activities. 2. Reduction in the time needed to train newly assigned motor officers due to an easier and more seamless transition to an enforcement motorcycle. Funding: Total Allocation: $25,754.00 PROACT Contribution: $12,490.69 Administrative Fee (1.5%): $386.31 Funds Retained by City: $12,877.00 Placentia City: The City of Placentia proposes to use the 2007 Justice Assistance Grant funding as follows: Problem Statement: The Placentia Police Department has been faced with a burgeoning criminal street gang problem that has seriously impacted the quality oflife for those individuals that live and/or work in any one of the three affected gang areas. The City of PIa centi a has unfortunately been ranked in the 2007-DJ-BX-0523 Page 11 of 19