STEPHANIE UJHELYI
Morning Journal/Stephanie Ujhelyi
This station sits on a desk in the East Liverpool Police Department recharging some of the officersâ new Getech body cameras in between shifts.
EAST LIVERPOOL City residents would acknowledge that this pandemic has brought a lot of new, unexpected solutions to the forefront of everyday life, such as face masks. However, in the case of the East Liverpool Police Department, it also gave them the opportunity to upgrade some technology.
The city’s officers recently replaced their body cameras, which had struggled to record action on an entire shift.
According to Police Chief John Lane, COVID funds allowed them to purchase 22 body cameras from Getech Photo Solutions out of Minnesota, they had bought about half that from a sister company of their traffic camera vendor years before. These new cameras last for 12 hours on a single charge, which includes their regular eight-hour shift plus four hours of extra duty if need be a