Police department utilizes grants to expand equipment and capabilities

Police department utilizes grants to expand equipment and capabilities

The Longboat Key Police Department just got a new Sea-Doo.The GTX 170 personal watercraft will be painted in a police livery before marine patrol takes to Sarasota Bay with it. The fourth vessel in LKPD’s marine fleet will give officers access to areas that aren’t reachable via boat.“On a holiday weekend when there’s a large amount of boats out on Jewfish Key, if we take out the Jet Ski, we can get in and service the issues that are on the sandb…