The Future of Police Body Cameras

Police cameras are a significant tool for the law enforcement community. Police body cameras come in handy in many different situations: documenting the scene of an incident or crime, creating an important record of a volatile and confusing situation, police traffic stops, arrests, along with eliminating "he-said, she-said" incidents with the press of a button.

 

Amazing advances in Police Body Camera  camera technology are allowing police and law enforcement to benefit from hi-def vehicle and police body cameras. Body cameras and car cameras are becoming increasingly ubiquitous with high tech models coming with many different useful designs and features.

 

The usefulness of body-worn cameras for police officers is obvious. For starters, they are able to protect officers in the event of misconduct allegations and from costly litigation. Second, an officer will often diffuse a situation by simply letting a belligerent person know they are being recorded. Third, they can provide valuable evidence and records of incidents, traffic stops, arrests and crime scenes.

 

"Reasons to use officer-worn cameras are to increase officer safety, reduce agency liability, reduce officer complaints and improve people perception of police," Lafayette police Sgt. John Sellers told TechBeat. It is really no surprise why there's this type of growing demand for both police body cameras and police car cameras.

 

All of the body cameras police use either clip onto leading of their uniform shirt or are disguised as a top button. Popular body cams incorporate a small pager-sized model that clips on the shirt. Lawmate's button-type cameras are disguised as a top button and record to a tiny digital recorder that fits in a pocket. There are many other models including button cameras with built-in digital video recorders that record either to internal memory or to a MicroSD card. These types of cameras record at between 640 x 480 resolution to 720 x 480 resolution. They also will often have a time/date stamp feature. Some are also waterproof and some have password protection as well. Several same cameras can be found to people for personal use.

 

The most advanced police body camera on the market today is a model that replaces the lapel handset mic on an officer's uniform and connects for their radio. What it so advanced could be the HD 1080p recording resolution, GPS geo tagging, the LCD screen and the supervisor password protection. In addition it can be utilized a police car dashboard camera.