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The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to re­fo­cus its ef­forts on sourc­ing body-worn cam­eras (BWCs) for po­lice of­fi­cers, in a bid to en­sure a high­er stan­dard of ac­count­abil­i­ty and trans­paren­cy in dai­ly polic­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

On Fri­day, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der an­nounced that a $24.9 mil­lion con­tract for 3,000 body cam­eras had been ter­mi­nat­ed.

Speak­ing dur­ing a sit­ting of the Sen­ate, Alexan­der ex­plained that the con­tract was ter­mi­nat­ed “in a bid to save mil­lions of dol­lars.” He not­ed that while the con­tact was ter­mi­nat­ed, the ac­qui­si­tion of body cam­eras was still a pri­or­i­ty, re­fer­ring to them as part of the tools for po­lice of­fi­cers.