CHARLOTTE (AP) — Every patrol officer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is now equipped with a body camera.

The Charlotte Observer reports department spokesman Rob Tufano said the body-worn cameras are in use throughout all 13 patrol divisions. The final cameras were put in place in the last week.

Tufano said the Metro and Providence divisions were the first to use them. In addition to patrol officers, canine and airport officers also have been trained and equipped with cameras

The body-worn cameras are required to record a variety of activities, including traffic stops, arrests, use of force, when requested by a citizen during an interaction with an officer, disturbances and when officers are in their vehicle and activate the blue lights and siren.

The department is evaluating the initial impact the body cams have had with officers using them in the field, Tufano said. That review is expected to be completed this year, he added, but he did not have a specific time-frame for when that evaluation will be finished.

In January, the Charlotte City Council unanimously voted to buy body cameras for the police. Charlotte officials have said that the body-worn cameras are more effective than dashcams in achieving accountability and transparency.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers first started using body cameras in April. The department is phasing out patrol-car dashcams in favor of the body cameras.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney told the newspaper this month that dashcams are obsolete. Using the lipstick-sized body-worn cameras “is going to give you a lot more opportunities to capture (what happened),” Putney said.