The Stockton Police Department is buying two heavy-duty pickup trucks totaling $154,804 to help efforts to relocate unhoused people.
The City Council ratified the purchase of two Chevrolet Silverado three-quarter-ton pickups on Tuesday. The initial vote had been scheduled in March as part of an emergency purchase order.
The vehicles are needed “to assist with the transportation of an arrestee’s belongings and to aid community clean-ups,” the City Council was told in a briefing document. Police recently joined social service and maintenance workers in clearing massive amounts of debris while dismantling a longtime homeless encampment at Trinity Park…