Pilot project will see Sudbury police wearing body cameras next year
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Some Greater Sudbury Police officers will wear body-worn cameras as part of a pilot project beginning in 2025.
Some Greater Sudbury Police officers will wear body-worn cameras as part of a pilot project beginning in 2025.
Members of the city's police services board received an update Wednesday on the process of implementing the cameras across the entire force.
While the plan to have all officers wear them began in 2021, Natalie Hiltz, acting police chief, told the board the rollout is a long process. It requires training, purchasing software, hiring people and creating policies to handle the flow of digital evidence.
“We want the public to know is delay is not inaction," Hiltz said.
"We are certainly working, setting up the behind the scenes that supports … a responsible deployment and operationalization of the body-worn-on-video technology."
Hiltz said the first officers will begin wearing the cameras next year as part of a pilot project.
