Picture of the Day: South Korean Police to Use Body Cams for the First Time
This photo, taken on May 25, 2015, shows a body camera mounted on a police officer from a police station in the southwestern city of Gunsan. Body cameras are those mounted on the front of a uniform and set to record an officer’s law enforcement of crime scenes. The Gunsan police have deployed four body cameras for the first time in South Korea, as part of its efforts to apprehend criminals interfering with their execution of duties and procurement of assault and robbery evidence. (Yonhap)
Wouldn’t the camera show sleeping police men? That is all i see the korean police do…
Flyingsward, my exact thoughts when I read this. What are the cameras really going to capture? How much more the Korean police DON’T do?
“set to record an officer’s law enforcement of crime scenes.”
It will not be on most of the time. 😉
The Koreans win again. ‘Merica!
That looks suspiciously like a $130 consumer-grade GoPro Hero.
Isn’t there some kind of law enforcement supply outfit run by former law enforcement they can buy some slightly worse cameras in tactical-black SWAT-grade combat-ready ballistic-composite housings for a thousand to two thousand dollars each?
It’s a pilot program, CH. They will somehow “break” one during the testing phase, which will give them their justification for buying the TBSGCRBC housings.
I mean, you can’t just slap down a purchase voucher for expensive toys right away. You have to sort of ease it in, THEN hit them for the big money.
Camera use should be bigger
to document crimes with more vigor.
Korean cops will be brave
and their courage won’t cave
when they confront the girl-groping African.
MTBRider, as I’ve worked with the ROK’s quite a bit, I can tell you their procurement on the military side doesn’t work like ours (US). I can easily imagine the police are even more frugal. I haven’t seen Korean police driving MRAPS or serving no-knock warrants in full battle gear. The Korean public, considering history, would never stand for it.
Americans act better when they know they’re being video-taped, for some reason we’ll see more entertainment(bad behavior) from the S. Koreans considering land mass/population.
It seems to me that for the job that KNPs do that these little GoPro cameras are a cheap solution for them. No need to break the bank on cameras when the police are usually asleep or breaking up shoving matches between drunk ajushis.