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W.Va. police departments evaluate body cameras

Times West Virginia photo by Richard Babich Fairmont Police Sgt. Glen Staley shows one type of body camera and where it is situated on uniforms. Police departments around Marion County have been researching, have purchased or are looking to purchase body cameras.
Times West Virginia photo by Richard Babich
Fairmont Police Sgt. Glen Staley shows one type of body camera and where it is situated on uniforms. Police departments around Marion County have been researching, have purchased or are looking to purchase body cameras.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Town, city and county law enforcement agencies are all looking into body cameras.

After the death of Michael Brown, who was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, police departments across the country purchased body cameras to record the interactions officers have with the public.

 Some departments had the cameras before the Ferguson incident, and other have been planning on purchasing them for a number of reasons such as training and documenting evidence.

The White Hall Police Department has already purchased four body cameras. Some donations made to the department will allow all officers at that department to their own body camera.

White Hall Police chief Geno Guerrieri said that the cameras have already assisted the police department in one particular incident.

“We had a shoplifting call and a (female) lied to an officer and said she did not lie,” Guerrieri said. “Officer Davis had his camera on and it (recorded) all the footage of (the female) lying to us and giving us a fake name.”

In Barrackville, the police department has been experimenting with a trial run of a body camera for the last month…

 

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