Winnipeg police to start wearing body cameras as part of months-long project - BERITAJA

Dozens of Winnipeg constabulary officers are group to commencement wearing cameras adjacent week arsenic portion of a six-month aviator project.

The unit says 40 front-line officers will beryllium equipped pinch body-worn cameras to beryllium utilized during their regular duties, including responding to calls and during investigations.

The work is to get feedback from the organization and partner organizations.

It’s besides readying to big nationalist forums.

City assembly antecedently cited concerns complete costs of the exertion but heard from Chief Gene Bowers earlier this twelvemonth that there’s nary costs for the pilot.

RCMP successful Manitoba announced past twelvemonth that about each their front-line officers are equipped pinch assemblage cameras, while the Manitoba First Nations Police Service has deployed the exertion to each its 12 detachments.