The explosion of a body camera at a Staten Island police station will delay the rollout of such cameras for the NYPD’s entire patrol force by only two months, Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology Jessica Tisch said last week.
The use of nearly 3,000 body cameras of the type that caught fire Oct. 20 was suspended. Ms. Tisch said at the time that the department was likely to miss its deadline of equipping all 23,000 Police Officers, Sergeants and Lieutenants assigned to patrol duties in precincts and in transit and housing units with the cameras by the end of this year.
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