THE PNP yesterday appealed for donations of body worn cameras (BWCs) to be used by its operatives nationwide from local government units and other stakeholders.
PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said the PNP presently only has around 3,000 BWCs procured through funds approved by Congress, short by at least 27,000 units to fill the ideal 30,000 units.
Eleazar said the target is to equip all provincial, city, and station-level drug enforcement units with BWCs to erase doubts and speculations of irregularities during anti-illegal drugs operations.
He said the 3,000 BWCs recently procured by the PNP have been distributed in city police stations, mostly in Metro Manila.
He said the PNP is seeking donations of BWCs as government funds are reserved to fund the country’s pandemic response measures.
“That’s why we took the initiative of seeking assistance of the LGUs and other stakeholders,” Eleazar said.
Aside from BWCs, Eleazar said the PNP has also procured P60 million worth of high-definition CCTV rapid deployment systems using the P45 million savings from the BWCs, and another P19 million savings from the recent improvement of the PNP Command Center.
