Winnipeg cops say more dashcams mean more investigative tools

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Winnipeg constabulary opportunity they’re seeing much dashboard cameras successful vehicles each complete nan city, and nan gadgets tin beryllium a boon to investigations.

Patrol Sgt. Brian Neumann told 680 CJOB’s The Start that it’s emblematic to spot dashcams successful commercialized vehicles, but postulation officers person noticed a displacement pinch much group utilizing them connected their regular commutes.

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“Often nan nationalist hears america petition that they cheque their surveillance images,” Neumann said.

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“Dash cameras aren’t nan only things that are retired location — intersection postulation monitoring cameras, closed circuit tv — but nan dash cameras are what we person a batch of liking in, because they’re really signaling what nan driver could see. Not conscionable what that driver could see, but nan actions and what different drivers could perchance see.”

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The video, and sometimes audio arsenic well, tin supply an unbiased relationship of what happened during a collision, a deed and run, aliases different crime.

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While nan accrued number of dashcams intends constabulary — and security adjusters — tin get a clear image of what happens successful a collision, Neumann said nan beingness of much dashcams hasn’t needfully led to Winnipeggers becoming amended drivers successful general.

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“The much cameras, nan much you spot … nan much you’re shocked by nan mode successful which immoderate group drive,” he said.

“By and large, I don’t deliberation group are really reasoning astir whether they’re being recorded erstwhile they’re driving, because if they did, they astir apt wouldn’t do what they do.”

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