{"id":3108,"date":"2019-03-21T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:49:50","slug":"ghana-police-to-use-body-cameras-by-may-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/ghana-police-to-use-body-cameras-by-may-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Police to use body cameras by May this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As part of efforts to enhance police transparency and \naccountability, the Police Administration will deploy its first body \ncameras in May this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police body cameras<\/a> are small-lensed devices, often worn on an officer’s chest to capture images. It has a microphone to record sounds and internal storage for data or footage for later review and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Director-General in charge of Services, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr Alex Amponsah-Asiamah, told the  in\n an interview in Accra that the Police Administration would take \ndelivery of the first batch of 300 pieces of the body cameras by the \nmiddle of April this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said 3,000 pieces were expected to be delivered by the close of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Amponsah-Asiamah explained that the decision to use the body \ncameras formed part of the police transformation agenda to enhance \npublic confidence in the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Backlash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two major incidents last week have attracted a backlash on the police regarding their lack of accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first instance, a policeman allegedly assaulted three journalists from the Ghanaian Times<\/a>. The officer allegedly seized the mobile phone one of the reporters was using to record a traffic offence involving the police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second case, a driver and his mate, who are currently on \nremand, were captured in a viral video assaulting another police \nofficer.
Members of the public have wondered what might have triggered the incident, since the video only captured the assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Amponsah-Asiamah said the use of the body cameras by police officers on the field would address some of those challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the body cameras would also instil discipline and check the misbehaviour of police officers on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, before a police officer was issued with a body \ncamera, it would be tested to ensure that the sound, cameras and \nrecording functions were working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you return from the field and cannot produce a report from your \noperation from the body camera, you will have to answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Amponsah-Asiamah said it would be in the interest of police \nofficers to use the cameras because if a case was reported against an \nofficer during an operation or exercise but there was no recording to \nback it, that officer would certainly be in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get used to it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing his perspectives on the development, Assistant Commissioner \nof Police (ACP), Dr Benjamin Agordzor, said taking videos of police \nactions had come to stay and it did not matter who took them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe earlier we got used to it and modified our attitudes, the \nbetter. We can never justify the assault on the police officer by the \ndriver and his mate irrespective of the conduct of the police officer; \nneither can we ever justify the assault on the three journalists \nirrespective of whether they were taking pictures of us or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to leave such negative tendencies and mindsets behind us,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dr Agordzor, videos were key in evidence gathering because of their graphic nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Body cameras<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police body cameras are used around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, in response to the number of high profile shootings of \nunarmed black men by police officers, the then President of the United \nStates of America (USA), President Barack Obama, pledged funding for a \nnationwide programme to equip departments with body cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following from that, law enforcement agencies in 45 states in the USA received funding from the Department of Justice’s Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Programme, which spent over $58 million between 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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