West Hartford police officers soon will be wearing body cameras, joining officers in New London, Danbury and Manchester, who all started using them in the past year.
The system will record police interactions with the public. It will improve police transparency and offer a new level of protection to civilians as well as officers, police said.
The police department wants the town to commit to a five-year funding plan to buy the cameras and then pay the much-larger cost of storing video.
With all uniformed officers recording their daily interactions with civilians, hundreds of hours of video will be created each day.