In the worlds biggest pilot scheme of its kind, Londons Metropolitan Police is today deploying 500 wearable cameras as part of its officers emergency response kit. Provided by Taser, the Axon Body cameras have a 130-degree field of view, can record over 12 hours of continuous footage, and are hardy enough to survive being run over by a car. In a briefing at New Scotland Yard on Wednesday, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley explained that the use of this equipment will help convey \the rawness and the awfulness\ of the situations officers respond to. Rowley cited the established use of cameras by traffic cops as indicative of the impact he anticipates seeing.
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