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Body Cameras Earning Trust & Increasing Safety
The truth in law enforcement is always critical, sometimes elusive, and often open to interpretation. Your body camera is a corroborating, independent and reliable third-party. It could be the deciding factor in a just conviction. Or a way to gain the trust of a community.
It’s not just the Police Department that benefits from it…”
Glyn Horn, Assistant Chief
I would not be doing the job without it…”
Maria Molina, Detective
Increase Trust & Transparency
Effective Police performance depends on public approval. To fight crime effectively, the public needs to trust an officer’s actions are legitimate. The body camera plays a major role here – giving them complete transparency with every interaction.
Body camera footage helps police resolve issues quicker with clear, undisputable, defendable evidence. Video cuts the amount of time officers spend on paperwork. And it can help prosecutors prepare more complete cases contributing to a greater likelihood of conviction.
Like we say in Law Enforcement, there’s the truth, it’s your truth and then there’s the real truth…”
Henry Garcia, Lieutenant
It gives the investigator the opportunity to go back and put themselves in the seat or the role of the officer watching that footage…”
CASE STUDY > SAFE FLEET FOCUS X2 BODY CAMERAS
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* Assistant Chief Glyn Horn, Detective Maria Molina and Lieutenant Henry Garcia made the statements shown here as members of the City of Stafford Police Department. Each has subsequently transitioned to new roles within other agencies across the U.S.