{"id":401073,"date":"2026-09-16T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401073\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:11","slug":"fort-pierce-approves-10-million-contract-for-police-body-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401073\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce approves $10 million contract for police body cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Pierce approves $10 million contract for police body cameras and AI tools<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789525331_0_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Malcolm Shields\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Fort Pierce city commission approved a contract with a body-worn camera manufacturer to provide equipment for its police department.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">During a meeting on Monday, Sept. 14, commissioners voted unanimously 5-0 to approve a contract with Axon Enterprise, Inc. for body-worn cameras and other technology provided by the company.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Fort Pierce Police Department Chief David M. Smith said prior to the commissioners\u2019 vote on Monday that the package with Axon Enterprise was the company&#8217;s &#8220;top tier&#8221; offering that included Tasers, also known as stun guns, artificial intelligence technology tools, along with body cameras that translate languages immediately for officers.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The officer would then speak in their language, and the body camera will relay the officers\u2019 message to the subject in their language.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">\u201cIt will absolutely be a force multiplier for us,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The Axon technology will also help officers with redaction of police reports. Redactions are used to prevent personal information, like Social Security numbers, from being made public.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The contract is for five years with an optional automatic renewal for another five years.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">The 10-year contract will cost Fort Pierce $10,139,037.87.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">The first five years, the city will make annual payments of $999,000.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">If the option is picked up for the final five years of the contract, the city will pay Axon Enterprise $1,028,807.57 annually.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"13\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"14\">In the commission agenda, it was noted that the current Axon body cameras owned by the police department were at the end of their life and needed to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"15\">Axon Enterprise, Inc. is in Scottsdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce approves $10 million contract for police body cameras and AI tools FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[159526,159527,10234,4626,14894,3886,159525,3638,28014,217,1224,44548,171,173,172,158125,221,189,164],"class_list":["post-401073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-axon-enterprise","tag-body-worn-camera-manufacturer","tag-commissioner","tag-company","tag-contract","tag-fort-pierce","tag-fort-pierce-approves-10-million-contract-for-police-body-cameras-and-ai-tools","tag-inc","tag-language","tag-monday","tag-officer","tag-police-body-camera","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-redaction","tag-weather","tag-wpbf","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}