Columbus City Council is set to approve the nearly $19 million deal announced last week to equip Columbus police with upgraded body cameras during Monday's council meeting.
The city plans to buy and begin using over 2,100 body-worn cameras and 450 in-car cameras equipped with license plate readers.
The system will use an unlimited cloud-based technology to store the data, instead of using disks and drives to store the audio and video.
Councilmember Emmanuel Remy chairs the Public Safety Committee and said the cameras are designed to begin recording automatically when officers arrive.
"You got this checklist you're trying to run through in your mind while the adrenaline's pumping; turning on the body camera may happen, may not happen. But bottom line is, with today's technology, we have the ability to program them to turn on whenever they're dispatched on a call," Remy said.
Remy said officers will be outfitted with the new cameras starting in June, with full system implementation targeted for spring of next year.
