(KNZA)--The Hiawatha Police Department will be getting new tasers.

On the recommendation of Police Chief John Defore, the City Commission Monday evening approved an agreement with Taser International Inc. for the purchase of eleven Tasers at a cost of just over $13,000.

The Tasers are to be paid for over a five-year period.

Defore says they currently have only three functioning Tasers. He said the three are each over ten years old which is well over the life expectancy for that type of equipment.

Defore said having eleven Tasers will allow the department to assign each officer their own and have one extra in case they have an issue with one and have to send it in for repairs or replacement.