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Every Nashua police officer will be outfitted with a body camera that activates when a gun is drawn, lights and sirens are switched on, a cruiser door is opened, or an officer is down, if aldermen give the final OK to the $1.8 million contract.

“It covers everyone from the chief on down. We will all wear them,” said Kevin Rourke, deputy chief of the Nashua Police Department.

An aldermanic panel last week supported a six-year contract with Utility of Decatur, Ga., for its BodyWorn cameras for 179 members of the force, as well as additional cameras for cruisers and the police station’s interview and booking rooms…