Arlington County police officers will start wearing body cameras on Wednesday, the police department announced today.
The relatively swift implementation of the new body-worn cameras follows a community discussion of police practices in Arlington, which itself followed the civil unrest caused by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis this past May.
“Effective Wednesday, December 16, 2020, Arlington County Police Officers assigned to the Operations Division will begin wearing body worn cameras and recording all dispatched calls for service, enforcement contacts and investigative contacts,” ACPD said today. “The deployment of cameras includes officers assigned to Patrol, Special Operations, Community Outreach, K-9 and the Emergency Response Team (commonly referred to as SWAT).”
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Upper Darby has announced that it will receive a $75,000 federal grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to fund the township police department’s Body-Worn Camera Initiative. It is expected that officers will be equipped with the body cams by mid-2021.
“The mayor’s feeling is that body-worn cameras make everyone safer. They make the public safer. They make the officers safer. And so, we were very excited to fill out the grant application and be awarded the grant,” Deputy Mayor Vincent Rongione said.
Although the grant will certainly help, Upper Darby officials were prepared to move forward even without federal funding.
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Dec 14, 2020 11:49am Former Finance Minister Bill Morneau Andrew Meade/iPolitics
Former finance minister Bill Morneau is a hot topic on the Hill again, this time on the lobby circuit, where he’s now officially known as “Bill Morneau, OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation) Nominee.”
Morneau’s former director of operations, Sharan Kaur has been granted a rare exemption under the Lobbying Act to reach out to government officials on behalf of her one-time boss from Nov.10 until March 17, 2021, albeit under strict parameters.
As per the publicly posted notice, Kaur “may only communicate with public office holders from Global Affairs Canada and the Prime Minister’s Office, solely to arrange meetings, or to obtain or provide documents and information regarding [Morneau’s] candidacy as Secretary-General of the OECD.”