On Nov. 25, the Rialto City Council approved a nine-year, $14.3 million contract with Axon Enterprise Inc., formerly TASER International, expanding the police department’s surveillance, software, and AI-driven technology through the company’s Officer Safety Plan 10 (OSP 10). The agreement was adopted as part of a 2025-26 budget amendment allowing the city to lock in contract pricing, service continuity and reduce administrative cost.
The Rialto Police Department, the first department in the nation to implement body-worn cameras and participate in a controlled study, adopted the use of body cameras in 2012, initiating the department’s use of Axon’s AI-driven assistance suite.
Rialto Police Captain Lamont Quarker, a 22-year veteran of the department, said the investment positions officers to work with modern tools designed to improve investigations and response times…