Police bodycams may be introduced as early as next month

Police officers will be outfitted with portable cameras on uniforms and tactical gear if a bill on criminality, urgently discussed by the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday, is passed into law next month by the plenum.

Apart from the bodycams, the MPs discussed installing cameras on police patrol cars, in an effort to crack down on crime.

“At a time when organised crime is on the rise, at a time when criminality and delinquency on the streets have taken on uncontrollable proportions...