Body Worn Videos are expected to be deployed to the rest of the service in Spring 2025. The order in which other areas will receive body worn cameras is yet to be determined.

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Legally, officers are not required to inform the public they are being recorded during an interaction, but they are trained to do so when they can.

Body-worn video (BWV) cameras were mandated by the Government of Alberta in March 2023 for all police agencies in Alberta. Edmonton Police Service (EPS) initiated a proof of concept for BWV with a select group of officers in July 2023 to assess the operational impacts. EPS is now moving towards service-wide implementation of the cameras, meaning the public will start to notice more officers will be wearing a BWV camera.

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Section 33C and 33B of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act authorizes the collection of information from the public. The recordings are disclosed to the courts when required, but private information of third parties captured in any recording is first redacted.

Police officers will be carrying a camera approximately the size of a pack of cards on the front of their uniform. The officers activate recording with audio and video during interactions with the public when the nature of the interaction is known to be, or become, investigative or enforcement related in nature.