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.