By Akiya Dillon
Las Vegas Review-Journal
LAS VEGAS — Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill introduced two new tasks on Friday that he stated his division would undertake this yr.
In one, the Metropolitan Police Department would broaden its world intelligence and counterterrorism efforts, and in one other, construct its personal “AI brain.”
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During the Metro’s yearly State of the Department deal with at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the sheriff introduced the news and highlighted the division’s successes and challenges from 2025.
He touted the occasion as “an opportunity to show the community what this police department — what this collective Southern Nevada first responder community — has accomplished with the support of so many of our elected officials and what the men and women of LVMPD have gone out and done day in and day out.”
Among the accomplishments, McMahill stated, was the 58 p.c lower in police shootings from 2024 to 2025. Also, the division noticed 90 homicides final yr, which McMahill, who took workplace in 2023, described as Metro’s lowest on document.
“Ninety is still far too many,” McMahill stated. “But we’re going to continue that downward trend as we move forward. In fact, we’re already at a downward trend at the beginning of this year, and I’m extremely proud of what these guys have done.”
McMahill additionally stated that site visitors fatalities have been an “area we didn’t do so well” within the final yr. As in earlier years’ addresses, McMahill stated that the division’s purpose was to scale back the variety of deadly crashes inside Metro’s jurisdiction.
More than 160 individuals died in crashes in Metro’s jurisdiction in 2024. In 2025, that quantity rose by three. But McMahill stated the difficulty was not merely a police or enforcement drawback, particularly provided that Metro issued 60 p.c extra citations than the yr earlier than, however a societal drawback.
He stated the identical in regards to the valley’s homelessness problem, including that 13 homeless individuals died by murder in 2025. McMahill stated that the division had not carried out sufficient to deal with the issue.
“I’m finally getting to the point where everybody understands it’s not a Metro problem,” McMahill stated. “So (we’re) inviting electeds in, the city, the county, nonprofits and others that have a heart to help us to try new strategies.”
Officer wellness
The sheriff talked about officer wellness as a particular space of curiosity for the division. The division has gone two years with out an officer suicide, which McMahill stated had not occurred since he joined the division 35 years in the past.
Toward the occasion’s conclusion, McMahill highlighted the division’s technological progress.
He stated that in 2026, Metro plans to provoke the Meridian challenge, which is able to arrange a 24/7 real-time evaluation desk to broaden counterterrorism readiness. The challenge can be financed by over 1,000,000 {dollars} in non-public donations and can create a worldwide intelligence community, permitting Metro employees to be stationed in and journey to different cities to collaborate with associate companies going through comparable terrorist threats.
“When instability rises overseas, whether it’s in the Middle East or other regions, it doesn’t stay there,” McMahill stated. “It travels through ideology, through online platforms.”
He referenced the 2025 Cybertruck explosion, a biohazard lab linked to Chinese residents investigated by regulation enforcement final month and the latest bombing at Piero’s Italian Cuisine.
Another new challenge, the AI-powered Okay.V.N., or Knowledge Value Network Project , will interconnect the division’s expertise system to make sure that data “flows smoothly, securely, and intelligently,” the sheriff stated.
McMahill supplied an instance of a suspect launched from jail years after committing a collection of robberies, just for comparable crimes to start out occurring once more. He stated these connections can get misplaced when the unique detectives have moved on, however new built-in methods would permit investigators to cross-reference particulars such because the suspect’s working methodology, car, and jail launch data, to determine repeat offenders a lot quicker.
McMahill known as the challenge futuristic, including that it will permit officers to spend much less time buried in paperwork and extra centered on management, accountability, and repair.
“I’m not good at technology, but I know how to build teams. I know how to cast a vision,” McMahill stated. “This will be one of the most impactful technology projects we’ve ever embarked on, and it will enhance every aspect of our organization, from crime fighting to employee wellness.”
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Contact Akiya Dillon at adillon@reviewjournal.com.
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