Nearly 300 Edmonton police officers in positions with high levels of public interaction will soon be equipped with body-worn cameras.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WATCH ABOVE: The Edmonton Police Service is outfitting more officers with body-worn cameras. It comes after the service ran a pilot program last year, where a few dozen officers wore them. The number of officers wearing the cameras will soon grow to nearly 300. Kabi Moulitharan reports.
“We also wanted to cross-section it across EPS. Because as we start to roll it out, we’re going to get a good perspective on how it’s being used and how much it’s being used and where the benefits are,” Derko said.Derko said the goal of the cameras is to increase transparency and accountability. “Once the officer recognizes the nature of the interaction – is it going to be enforcement or investigative in nature? – they should automatically be turning it on at that point,” Martin explained.
While not legally required to do so, officers have been instructed to inform the public when an interaction is being recorded whenever possible. “If something happens and it’s just passively recording we have 18 hours to download it before it’s rewritten over. And again, it’s just because of the data storage,” he said.
Speaking hypothetically, Derko said if a camera was recording during a police shooting where the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team was investigating, ASIRT would have to give the EPS permission to release any video of the interaction.
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