Metro - File #: 2025-0288

• File #: 2025-0288
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/10/2025
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 6/18/2025
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the quarterly update on the weapons detection pilot.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Accessibility, Ara Najarian, Bandwidth (Traffic signals), Board approved a Motion, Fernando Dutra, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Hilda Solis, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Karen Bass, Kathryn Barger, Key Performance Indicator, Maintenance, Motion / Motion Response, Norwalk, Norwalk Station, Public Safety Advisory Committee, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Surveys, System safety, Systems engineering, Technical Advisory Committee, Transit safety, Transit System, Vehicle maintenance, Video, Weapons

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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JUNE 18, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: WEAPONS DETECTION PILOT

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the quarterly update on the weapons detection pilot.

Issue
ISSUE

Following the completion of a weapons detection proof-of-concept pilot in 2024, in February 2025, the Board approved Motion 39 by Directors Hahn, Barger, Solis, Bass, Dutra and Butts (Attachment A) that directed the CEO to extend and expand the deployment of concealed weapons detection systems for 12 months, advance an onboard bus weapons detection pilot, and evaluate the infrastructure requirements needed to support brandished firearm detection with advanced video analytics. This update aligns with the Board directive to provide the first of a series of quarterly reports beginning in June 2025.

Background
BACKGROUND

In response to continual efforts to increase public safety on the system, the Board approved Motion 34.1 by Directors Barger, Krekorian, Hahn, Najarian, Butts, and Solis (Attachment B) in April 2024 that directed the CEO to explore strategies to prevent weapons from entering the system and to identify applicable technologies already deployed by peer transit agencies. Subsequently, in July 2024, Metro launched several proof-of-concept pilots to evaluate multiple weapons detection technologies. Broadly, these initial proof-of-concept pilots focused on two types of weapons detection systems, concealed weapons screening and brandished firearm detection using video analytics software applied to existing closed-circuit television (CCTV) infrastructure.

These proof-of-concept pilots concluded at the end of 2024, and in February 2025, staff presented their findings to the Board. The initial pilots provided valuable insight into the performance, scalability, and operational requirements of these technologies. It also informed the development of a ...