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Police urge upgrade to cloud-based body‑worn system; committee approves vehicle placeholder from seized funds
Summary
Police presented a utility body‑worn and in‑car camera platform offering CAD integration, geofence activation and holster‑sensor activation; the department also proposed firearms and radios purchased from asset‑forfeiture funds and sought a traffic‑enforcement vehicle placeholder, for which the committee approved up to $75,000 pending Public Safety review.
Police leaders told the committee the department’s current Panasonic body‑camera platform lacks emerging features such as automatic geofence activation, holster‑sensor activation and near‑real‑time cloud upload. Angie Hawkins and the administrative major outlined operational advantages: automatic camera activation when an officer enters a CAD geofence or draws a weapon, immediate upload and built‑in redaction and classification tools that reduce…
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