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Vendor For Columbus Police Body Cameras Selected

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published December 1, 2016 at 5:40 AM EST
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Columbus City Council is scheduled to vote on Monday to approve a vendor that will supply police officers with body cameras. A city committee has chosen Texas-based Watch Guard Video as the vendor from a pool of 12 applicants. The city wants to start equipping officers with body cameras by the end of the year.  Estimated cost is 8.5 million dollars.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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