Axon, a business unit of TASER International and the global leader in digital evidence management solutions with the leading body-worn camera, announced the purchase of 1,015 Axon Flex and Body 2cameras by the Atlanta Police Department. APD secured a five-year unlimited subscription to the Axon cloud solution, Evidence.com, to help store, manage and share data from the body cameras and other digital evidence sources. The order was received in the third quarter of 2016 and the agency has requested an eight-month staged deployment starting in 2017.

"With Atlanta on board, our Axon solution has now been selected by more than fifty percent of major cities in the U.S. That means that more than thirty of the country's largest agencies have seen the potential in our solution for making police work smarter and communities safer," said TASER CEO and Co-Founder Rick Smith. "We're deeply excited to be working alongside Atlanta PD to ensure a successful body camera rollout and provide them with an innovative solution for evidence management."

To date, more than 100,000 licenses have been booked on the Axon network worldwide. The Axon network seamlessly integrates devices and apps to enable powerful capabilities for building safer communities. The Axon network includes: 

• Smart Devices – Body cameras and in-car video that leverage technology such as Bluetooth wireless technology and Wi-Fi to better track and manage data

• Mobile Apps - Evidence management for iOS and Android devices with Axon View and Axon Capture 

• Unified and Integrated Digital Evidence Management System – One platform that removes siloed DEMS through cloud computing, integrations across media points, and open file standards that do not require proprietary file formats or media players

• Connected Ecosystem – From capture to courtroom, securely share and track digital evidence across public safety stakeholders

• Digital Verification and Audit Logs – Record every interaction with any piece of digital evidence including capture, ingest, retrieve, manage, and share

• Advanced Security – Industry–leading people, practices, and products that comply with CJIS at both the infrastructure and application layers and ISO/IEC 27001