Glenn County Sheriff’s Department, in California, has purchased 45 WOLFCOM 3rd Eye police body cameras. They are just one of many departments utilizing the newest technology and equipping their officers with police body cameras, proving police body cameras have become an important asset for law enforcement agencies. The benefits, shown by actual practice, are becoming more and more clear as the data comes in.
Rialto, a city in southern California, has reported that complaints against department members fell by 88 percent from the previous year. Use of force fell by more than 60 percent since they started using body cameras. “When you put a camera on a police officer, they tend to behave a little better, follow the rules a little better,” said Chief Farrar of the Rialto Police Department. “And if a citizen knows the officer is wearing a camera, chances are the citizen will behave a little better.”
Videos, taken by in-car cameras, have already proven their worth. A 2004 study for the International Association of the Chiefs of Police found that in cases where police misconduct was alleged, in-car video evidence exonerated officers 93 percent of the time. It also improved officer safety and improved accountability and professionalism.
Wolfcom Enterprises, manufacturer of the Wolfcom 3rd Eye, the first police body camera to feature HD 1080P recording and GPS geo-tagging, has heard first hand about the benefits their cameras have given to officers.
Chief Motter of the Waynesfield Police Department in Ohio, who has been using the Wolfcom 3rd Eye since 2012, had this to say about the Wolfcom 3rd Eye: “I have never come across a better video system than the Wolfcom 3rd Eye. From the GPS tags to the video to the night vision and day vision clarity to the audio recording, I have never had a video system that has come even close to matching the Wolfcom 3rd Eye. Clearly there’s no doubt that I would highly recommend it to all law enforcement personnel.”
By using body cameras, police departments are taking video evidence and its advantages to the next level.