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Council approves power to police shed and move to Axon body cameras to replace aging system
Summary
Preston police were authorized to add power to a storage shed for battery maintenance and approved moving forward with an Axon body-worn camera system (cloud option), citing interoperability with county and prosecutor systems and redaction tools; council asked staff to finalize contract and funding details.
Preston — The City Council authorized the police department to proceed with two operational improvements: adding permanent power to a storage shed used for maintaining vehicle batteries and procuring an Axon body-worn camera system.
Police Chief Dan McCampman told the council that replacing batteries in the MRAP and a donated ambulance has been costly and logistically difficult without nearby power hookup. He…
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