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Columbus Police officer Robert Barrett shows off the Panasonic police body camera during a press conference at Columbus Police Training Academy in Columbus, Ohio on August 8, 2016. Columbus Police began upgrading the body camera technology in 2021.

The Columbus City Council is expected to vote Monday on spending $4 million for new police body cameras, in-car cameras, and interview cameras to upgrade the division’s technology.

The city is not selecting a new vendor yet, but it is setting aside money for the system upgrade. The city will go through a procurement process before selecting a vendor.

In January, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther announced that that city would invest at least $4.5 million in upgrading and replacing the cameras that officers now wear…