Every Member Of The Police Department Has Training On Body Cameras In Anne Arundel County

ANNE ARUNDEL, Md. (WJZ) — Every active-duty subordinate of the police department has received and been trained connected their Body Worn Cameras arsenic of Thursday, September 16 according to their newest update.

The programme was implemented connected July 6, and since then, officers person recorded 54,969 videos; utilizing 21,854 Gigabytes (21.854 Terabytes) of information storage. 

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Of those recordings, 35,168 were made during regular calls for work and 14,008 were made during postulation stops. An further 4,118 were made astatine mishap scenes and 315 were made during national contact.

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Some of the goals of the assemblage camera are to fortify constabulary accountability, beforehand de-escalation and amended transparency. All members of the bureau person been issued 2 body–worn cameras to guarantee they ever person a charged instrumentality for their shift.

CBS Baltimore Staff