Swiss cantons to equip police officers with bodycams

Police officers in the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Valais are to be equipped with bodycams. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Vaud government wants to "strengthen transparency, trust and security" in police operations with the general introduction of body cameras, as it wrote in a press release on Thursday. + Will bodycams on Swiss trains keep trouble of the rails? The body cameras would help to "prevent rudeness and violence during operations, provide objective recordings that can be used in court and support the accountability, legitimacy and credibility of police work", which is in the interests of both officers and the public. A pilot trial conducted in 2019 and 2020 by the cantonal police and the Lausanne municipal police confirmed the added value of bodycams. As a first step, each two-man patrol of the mobile riot police will be equipped with at least one bodycam. A gradual roll-out is then planned, with the aim of eventually equipping all police ...