Garden City commissioners and city staff were given a presentation last week during a pre-meeting on the Garden City Police Department’s recently implemented body cameras, which detailed how the cameras will be used and what the benefits and limitations of body camera systems are.
According to Garden City Police Chief Mike Utz, the GCPD began using body cameras on July 1, and officers have been trained and are now out using them while on duty.
″… We started looking at the body camera technology in approximately 2015 and tested several companies. The problem we found is that some companies had body cameras, some had car cameras, and nothing integrated, except for a few companies,” he said. “But it has always been a concern, and the public’s demand for the technology has come to the forefront and it’s time to move forward with the systems.”
(Read more: News – The Garden City Telegram)