{"id":518942,"date":"2026-03-06T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518942\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:18:14","slug":"winnipeg-police-to-begin-wearing-body-cameras-in-june-as-part-of-pilot-project-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518942\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police to begin wearing body cameras in June as part of pilot project \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 Police officers in Winnipeg are to be outfitted with body-worn cameras as part of a pilot project starting in June.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Gene Bowers says 40 officers are to be equipped with the cameras as part of the project.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg has been looking at adopting body cameras for its municipal police force, but city council has previously cited concerns over the cost.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWinnipeg police officers are expected to be outfitted with body-worn cameras in June. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer turns off a body camera during a demonstration at a news conference in Surrey B.C., on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n

Bowers told the board that the price of the technology required has gone down over the years, and that there is no cost for the pilot project.<\/p>\n

He says body cameras allow the force to enhance its transparency and strengthen accountability.<\/p>\n

Manitoba RCMP announced last year that nearly all front-line officers were equipped with body cameras, while the Manitoba First Nations Police Service has deployed the technology to all of its 12 detachments.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Police officers in Winnipeg are to be outfitted with body-worn cameras as part of a pilot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-518942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}