Everett Police tried out 10 body worn cameras during the pilot program approved last December.
According to Everett Police Spokesman Aaron Snell, years 2-5 expenses are anticipated to be approximately $270K (each year) for software, licensing, cloud storage and equipment. There are no additional staff requests to manage public disclosure or prosecutor’s office workload at this time, but Chief Templeman has indicated during his prior Council briefing that this is something the department will closely monitor.
Snell says the goal is to equip all of the patrol officers with the body-worn cameras by the end of this year but approvals and contracting details may push that back a bit. The Everett Police Department has been conducting a trial program with ten cameras earlier this year and the results of that trial led the effort to move ahead with equipping all patrol officers with body worn cameras.
Here’s what Everett Police Chief Dan Templeman had to say about the cameras during the trial period. “While the cost of these cameras is high, we believe that the benefit of transparency and mitigation of injuries and liability make the expenses worth the investment.”
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