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Waldwick council hears $413,000 police proposal to switch to Axon camera, in‑car and Taser system
Summary
Police Chief Seaffort outlined a five‑year, $413,000 proposal to replace aging WatchGuard/Motorola cameras and Taser 7s with an integrated Axon suite, citing frequent malfunctions, swollen batteries and faster redaction tools; council pressed for financing options, cyber‑security details and grants.
WALDWICK — Police Chief Seaffort presented the Borough Council with a capital request to replace the department's body cameras, in‑car cameras and Tasers with Axon's integrated hardware-and-cloud evidence platform, saying the town's existing equipment is past its useful life and has produced repeated failures.
Seaffort told council members the WatchGuard in‑car and body camera systems are about six years old and that the department documented 24 device malfunction reports in the last four months, including swollen batteries that have required frequent replacement. He said the department currently uses WatchGuard (now owned by Motorola) and that transferring evidence to partner agencies that use Axon creates operational friction.
"We missed something on the body worn cameras that we shouldn't have missed," Seaffort said, and described automated activation, higher resolution sensors and…
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