{"id":9702,"date":"2024-11-15T18:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2024-11-16T05:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:41:56","slug":"rcmp-will-begin-issuing-body-worn-cameras-to-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/rcmp-will-begin-issuing-body-worn-cameras-to-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP Will Begin Issuing Body-Worn Cameras to Officers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting this month, as part of the RCMP&#8217;s national deployment, the Nova Scotia RCMP will begin issuing body-worn cameras (BWCs) to officers across the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cameras will be issued to&nbsp;600&nbsp;Nova Scotia RCMP officers in a phased approach over the next six to eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Body-worn cameras can help build trust between the police and the community because the video evidence collected provides an independent, unbiased, and objective way to capture interactions,&#8221; says Chief Superintendent Dan Morrow, Officer in Charge of Criminal Operations for the Nova Scotia RCMP. &#8220;The use of BWCs will also improve evidence collection and help resolve public complaints more quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BWCs will be complemented by a digital evidence management system that will be used to store and manage video captured by the cameras.<br><br>RCMP officers will typically wear their BWCs on their chests; members of the public will know they&#8217;re recording when a red light is visible and flashing below the lens of the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : RCMP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this month, as part of the RCMP&#8217;s national deployment, the Nova Scotia RCMP will begin issuing body-worn cameras (BWCs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9706,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions\/9706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}