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The Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) plans to order 475 additional body-worn cameras for its patrol officers, said Kansas City Police spokesman Sergeant Jacob Becchina at a Wednesday morning press conference outside of Police Headquarters.
The police department, who currently has 340 patrol officers equipped with body cameras, would be able to outfit the entirety of its patrol divisions with the 475 additional cameras. Currently, patrol officers in the Central, North and Shoal Creek are equipped with body cameras, Becchina said.
“You have that third person that’s there,” Officer Oasha White said. “Usually it’s your side, the citizen’s side, and then you have the unknown, but now that we have the body cameras there with us all the time, there won’t be that unknown.