LAHORE: The National Highway and Motorway Police (NHMP) has signed an agreement with Hytera, a China-based global leader in two-way radio communications, for the purchase of body cameras for the Lahore Motorway Police.
According to a statement on Monday, a significant move taken to modernize the traffic policing functions, the deployment of body cameras will also enable the law enforcement agencies to continually keep an eye on miscreants and lawbreakers and maintain the law and order conditions in any situation.
“Hytera body cameras record high-quality video even in the dark and cater to the police in all kinds of situations because body cams survive such extreme conditions as heavy rain, dust storm, and in the case of their sudden dropping to the ground,” says Ken Dai, General Manager, Hytera’s Pakistan.
The police officers will also be able to take advantage of the Hytera Smart IDS (Integrated Device Station) System and Smart Eye System. The Smart IDS provides centralized management of multimedia evidence, collected by the body cams. It supports both centralized and distributed storage of the evidence, making it simple and easy to view, download, edit, and share. The SmartEye System is an intelligent management platform, which enables the police headquarters to monitor and control the on-site body cams in real-time.
The body cam model, one of the top-of-the-range body cams, features a small, slim, lightweight, and portable design suitable for use by frontline police officers. It supports 1080P video recording at 30fps and has a long-range night vision capability of up to 10m distance. The body cam has an integrated remote speaker microphone to provide video dispatch and real-time video streaming over 3G/4G/Wi-Fi.
This means it can also double as a PoC device, so the police can make push-to-talk (PTT) voice calls and initiate an emergency alarm in mission-critical situations. Today, organizations like Wal-Mart use proprietary body cameras to monitor their in-home delivery team.