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Watchdog calls body cams an imperfect ‘eye’ into B.C. police interactions

Police chiefs tout the effectiveness for investigations with timelines, evidence gathering
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Delta Police Department Sgt. Jim Ingram wears one of the detachment’s body-worn cameras at the B.C. RCMP ‘E’ Division headquarters in Surrey on Jan. 11, 2024. The B.C. Associations of Chiefs of Police were touting the current and future roll out of of body-worn cameras in B.C. (Lauren Collins)

When Delta Police Sgt. Jim Ingram double taps the device attached to the front of his gear, it begins blinking red and beeping.

Then he tells the person he’s interacting with that he’s now recording. It’s something Ingram has had the ability to do for the past two years since Delta Police began deploying frontline officers with body-worn cameras.

“For the vast majority of interactions, when you tell somebody that they’re being recorded it keeps everything fairly calm and even level on both sides.

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Lauren Collins

About the Author: Lauren Collins

I'm a provincial reporter for Black Press Media's national team, after my journalism career took me across B.C. since I was 19 years old.
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