Metro Transit Police to begin wearing body cameras

Metro Transit Police will begin wearing body cameras in the coming weeks, the department announced Friday.

The cameras will be front-facing, and have internal storage for both audio and video footage. Officers will be able to start recording at any time, although they will have to inform individuals that they are being recorded before they begin.

After that, the equipment will be phased in, with 315 Metro Transit Police Department officers training to use and wearing the cameras by the end of the summer. These officer-mounted cameras will augment the more than 20,000 stationary cameras throughout the Metro system.

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