Police plan to equip officers with bodycams

POLICE plan to equip officers with bodycams to record their conduct in public, according to Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili.
Tsiamalili said that they were putting together the paperwork to procure them.
He said the bodycams should improve the performance of police officers in public.
“We will probably trial it out in all the major centres such as Moresby, Lae, Rabaul and Hagen, with all policemen and women on foot patrol (required to wear them,” he said. “That is what will happen.”
He said the officers in police vehicles would also be required to wear them.
The idea had been thrown around before as a whistle-blower initiative.
National Judicial Staff Services Secretary Jack Kariko said equipping police officers with bodycams would restore public confidence in constabulary.
“It would show the public that we are holding our enforcers to account as well.”
Tsiamalili confirmed that there was another whistle-blower initiative in place for all public servants and was initiated three years ago called the Wasmahn App.
“Every public servant is subject to scrutiny,” he said.
“The Wasmahn App can be used to report anything questionable (about) a public servant.”