Omaha City Council approved a contract for the Omaha Police Department to purchase 460 new automatically activated body cameras Tuesday afternoon.

The department currently has 115 uniformed officers equipped with the cameras, but the additional 460 would mean every officer on the force now has one.

“It’s a win-win situation for everyone. Not only does it protect our citizens, but it also protects the officers as well," Omaha Police Deputy Chief Kerry Neumann said.

The cameras will be supplied by Axon Enterprise, Inc. and will cost $1,377,383.17. The bill is being taken care of through a donation from the Omaha Police Foundation.

“The cameras are funded philanthropically, so it’s a sign that the private community supports this effort as well. We’ll be one of the first cities in the entire country to have automatic body cams," city councilman Pete Festersen said.

The cameras are activated automatically through a variety of ways which the department can choose, and OPD chose to have them under what is called full activation.

“Automatic activation includes any time an officer turns on their emergency lights on a cruiser, any time an officer has their in-car video camera gets turned on, any time an officer pulls out a taser and activates that taser, and then any time an officer pulls out their handgun," Dep. Chief Neumann said.

The cameras can be turned off, but Neumann said it should only be for small things like private conversations among officers or things like restroom breaks.

“We have policy that our cameras should be on any time we have interaction with citizens, so any time we go to a disturbance call, those cameras are required to be turned on," Neumann said.

Dep. Chief Neumann tells 6 News many officers are ready to go to full integration.

The department will receive 160 cameras by May 1 of 2018, another 150 by December 2018, and the last 150 by the end of 2019.

The cameras are being purchased in phases due to video storage cost.