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Eleazar pushes for more body-worn cameras through donations amid budget constraint

Published Jul 5, 2021 01:18 pm

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has taken the initiative of getting more body-worn cameras (BWCs) through donations from Local Government Units (LGUs) and other private individuals and groups.

PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar said there are already several LGUs and other groups that have already informed him of their willingness to provide BWCs, especially during his visits and courtesy calls with mayors and governors.

"We just want to make sure that their donations would be compatible to the system that we are using. I have already directed the Director, Directorate for Research and Development, Police Major General Domingo Lucas, to provide me with the specifications of the body-worn cameras that would work under the body camera system that we are currently using. The move is to ensure that all the body-worn cameras that would be donated are compatible with our existing body camera system,” said Eleazar.

Eleazar said his target is that at least all the Provincial, City and Station level Drug Enforcement Units to be equipped with BWCs to totally ease doubts and speculations in every anti-illegal drugs operations of the PNP.

Almost 3,000 BWCs were procured by the PNP recently from the fund allocated by the Congress. All of them were already distributed in city police stations, mostly in Metro Manila.

But the PNP needs at least 30,000 more BWCs to fully equip all the police stations and units across the country. The PNP has been pushing for more funds to procure BWCs amid allegations of human rights violations in the conduct of police operations.

Eleazar, however, said that he understands that it is not easy to get fund especially in times of pandemic, adding that more BWCs means multi-million additional funds.

In 2017, Congress allocated P300 million for the procurement of BWCs amid allegations of human rights abuses and extra-judicial killings. The PNP was able to buy almost 3,000 BWCs from it and saved P45 million from the transaction.

The P45 million saving was combined with the P19 million savings from recent improvement of the PNP Command Center to buy the P60 million worth high-definition CCTV Rapid Deployment System.

It is composed of 10 deployable CCTVs with Artificial Intelligence, video management system, 10 CCTV mobile trailers and 10 generators. Each camera of the CCTV Rapid Deployment System can be loaded with 200 pictures of wanted criminals and terrorists.

“This will be used in counter-terrorism operations anywhere in the country. The CCTV Rapid Deployment System and the hardware were already delivered and we expect the completion of the delivery this month,” said Eleazar.

He said each of the 10 CCTV mobile trailers has three cameras, for a total of 30 cameras, in order to maximize the documentation of the operations.

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