Every patrol car in the Palo Alto Police Department will soon be equipped with a new life-saving tool: a defibrillator that restores regular heart rhythm to victims of sudden cardiac arrest.

The City Council is scheduled to approve on Monday a proposal from the department to spend $60,000 in state- and county-granted funds to purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for each vehicle. The purchases will be facilitated by the nonprofit Racing Hearts, which has been at the forefront of raising awareness about AEDs and encouraging municipalities throughout Santa Clara County to invest in the devices.

The effort to make these devices more common received a boost in 2015 and 2016, when county officials partnered with Racing Hearts to allocate about $1 million for installing more than 660 AEDs in 553 high-risk locations throughout the county. The funding, which came from a combination of Measure A (a 2012 sales tax) and the county's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Trust Fund, included the installation of 136 AEDs in Santa Clara County sheriff's patrol cars.

Now, Palo Alto is preparing to do same, with help from the county. To foot the $60,000 bill for the new AEDs, the city is using $30,000 from county funds and another $30,000 from the Citizens Options for Public Safety (COPS) program, which distributes state funds to public-safety agencies.

The City Council is scheduled to consider this Monday the expenditure of COPS funds on AEDs and to authorize the partnership between the city and Racing Hearts for the purchase of the devices.

For the city, the expense is the latest milestone in an effort that began in 2013, when the council first approved the installation of AEDs at local parks, community centers, several police cars and various public facilities.

The next purchase, which will make AEDs a fixture of every patrol car, will provide the community with "faster, more efficient access to these life-saving devices," a report from the Police Department states.

"When an automated external defibrillator (AED) is deployed within the first four to six minutes and in combination with CPR, the survival rates of sudden cardiac arrest can increase up to 80 percent," the report states. "This purchase will ensure constant, around the clock accessibility to life-saving measures, and assist with the increasing volume of medical aid calls for service."

The Police Department, which received $105,964 from the state through the COPS program this year, also plans to spend $50,000 from these funds for electronic citation software and $53,000 for rifle magnifiers, according to the report.