Contract approved for new body cameras for Fresno Police Department

The declaration besides covers information storage, a records absorption system, bundle upgrades and maintenance.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno City Council is moving guardant with a declaration to proviso the Fresno Police Department with caller assemblage cameras.

The $18 million, five-year declaration with Axon Enterprises passed unanimously astatine Thursday's meeting.

During the meeting, determination was immoderate treatment astir however the declaration was written and a proviso for an automatic renewal.

Interim Police Chief Mindy Casto spoke astir the department's concern with the company.

"We person 556 cameras that we wage for arsenic we expanded," she said. "They allowed us, without going nether a caller contract, to person astir 100 caller cameras. We've been utilizing them escaped of charge, and present the clip has travel to quadrate up with them and really acquisition cameras for enlargement and wage for what we've really been using."

In summation to the camera equipment, the declaration covers information storage, a records absorption system, bundle upgrades and maintenance.