When will RCMP roll out body cameras nationally? Update coming shortly
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The RCMP plan to have body cameras worn by between 10,000 and 15,000 frontline officers in cities across the country as part of its national rollout.
The RCMP is expected to provide an update Thursday on its plan to roll out body-worn cameras for its police force on a national scale, and how its data storage system will operate.
According to its website, the organization is expected to begin rolling out the cameras this month in stages with the end goal to have between 10,000 to 15,000 devices deployed to both contract and federal police officers across the country.
“This means that all frontline RCMP officers will be wearing body cameras when national roll-out is complete,” its website reads.
The plan was first announced in 2020 and in the past few years has seen policies and training being developed and undertaken, and field testing being conducted in 2023 and 2024 in Alberta, Nova Scotia and Nunavut detachments.
Body-worn cameras are used by other police forces across Canada, with officers in Edmonton starting to wear the cameras this past September as part of a phased rollout.
Last year, the Alberta government announced that such cameras would become mandatory for all officers working in the province.
The RCMP says on its website that body-worn cameras will be activated during calls for service, including mental health calls, interactions with people in crisis, public disorder and protests, and crimes in progress.
The policy also requires that the camera start recording before arriving at a call for service as well as “when initiating contact with a member of the public as part of a lawful execution of their duties.”
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