Public Safety Committee Chair Wingate (standing) at Monday's board meeting. City police officers will soon have access to overdose-reversing medication, as well as artificial intelligence-written police reports, thanks to two approvals by the Board of Alders.Local legislators took those unanimous votes of support Monday night during the latest full Board of Alders meeting, held in the Aldermanic Chamber on the second floor of City Hall.The alders voted to accept a $5,700 donation for Narcan vest pouches for police officers. They also voted to approve a new five-year, $7.6 million contract with police body cam tech company Axon, which includes the report-writing software.Monday’s final votes on these items come after the Board of Alders Public Safety Committee unanimously endorsed both during their meeting in November.The artificial intelligence (AI) report software, Draft One, is part of a larger contract for the New Haven Police Department (NHPD) that also includes more dashboard and body cameras, tasers, and software to livestream drone footage, among other supplies. At the November committee hearing, city Police Chief Karl Jacobson told alders that the AI police-report software would begin with a three-to-six month trial period. The department will then evaluate whether the software succeeds at producing high-quality reports and at freeing up officers’ time for other police work. Jacobson also said then that officers would have to certify that each fact in AI-generated reports is true.The Narcan pouch donations, meanwhile, were thanks to Fiona Cullen Firine and Joseph Firine, who together run the overdose-education nonprofit For Cameron, which they founded in the wake of their son Cameron’s unintentional fentanyl overdose in 2018. The donation paves the way for the full department to be equipped with the overdose-reversing medication Narcan. Currently, only NHPD officers in the K‑9 units carry Narcan to protect the dogs from fentanyl exposure.At Monday night’s meeting, Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, who chairs the Public Safety Committee, spoke in support of both items.“There has been an impact on the community by the fentanyl crisis,” Wingate testified in support of the Narcan-pouch donation. ​“Carrying Narcan as a medic, in the event of a fentanyl overdose, can save many lives in the city of New Haven.”Wingate and his colleagues on the board then approved both items without further debate.