{"id":324999,"date":"2019-06-24T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=324999"},"modified":"2019-06-24T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:53:27","slug":"south-african-police-officers-to-wear-body-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/324999\/south-african-police-officers-to-wear-body-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"South African police officers to wear body cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Service (SAPS) will equip their officers with body cameras to better aid in the fight against crime.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BusinessTech, a Department of Police spokesperson said that the body cameras are on the agenda of the SAPS&#8217; top management &#8211; although no implementation date has been set as the department awaits more information on funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Body cameras will be used as &#8211; but not limited to &#8211; a safety measure to protect our men and woman in blue during operations,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will also be used for data capturing as the world is moving in the direction of the 4th industrial revolution and to advance policing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t give the exact date of implementation unfortunately for now, due to the allocation of funds etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Body lights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first piece of wearable technology that will be introduced among South African police officers.<\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/307414\/watch-johannesburg-police-officers-to-wear-red-and-blue-body-lights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced<\/a> <\/strong>\u2018body lights\u2019 which closely resemble the sirens attached to emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The lights will be worn by all officers involved in traffic management, as well as any who conduct roadblock and stop searches, ultimately making up a large proportion of the JMPD force.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for Johannesburg Public Safety, Luyanda Longwe, said that the lights will be affixed to an officer\u2019s shoulder and will flash red and blue.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the lights had officially been handed over in December and that officers would wear the lights at night for visibility purposes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/307414\/watch-johannesburg-police-officers-to-wear-red-and-blue-body-lights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joburg police officers to wear red and blue body lights<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Service (SAPS) will equip their officers with body cameras to better aid in the fight against crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":325029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-324999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324999"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325109,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324999\/revisions\/325109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}