The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it ful­ly sup­ports the use of body-worn cam­eras and has al­ready be­gun the pro­cure­ment process, invit­ing firms to ex­press in­ter­est in sup­ply­ing the tech­nol­o­gy as part of a broad­er push to mod­ernise polic­ing.

In a state­ment to­day, the TTPS sought to make clear it is not op­posed to body cam­eras, de­scrib­ing them as an es­sen­tial tool for pro­fes­sion­al, trans­par­ent and ac­count­able polic­ing.

The ser­vice said body-worn cam­eras pro­vide an ob­jec­tive record of in­ter­ac­tions be­tween of­fi­cers and the pub­lic, help­ing to doc­u­ment in­ci­dents ac­cu­rate­ly, sup­port in­ves­ti­ga­tions and court pro­ceed­ings, pro­tect of­fi­cers from false al­le­ga­tions and en­cour­age pro­fes­sion­al con­duct dur­ing po­lice en­coun­ters.