POLICE in Pitsea have become the latest officers to be given headcams.
They will use the £1,500-a-piece headgear on patrol in Pitsea, Vange and Basildon’s Festival Leisure Park.
The devices, which hold up to five hours of footage, will be used to film yobs in action committing booze-related offences, assaults, shoplifting and all other crimes.
Officers at Pitsea have been given two of the cameras, funded by Basildon Council’s Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, to trial. If successful all officers on the patch will get one.
In May last year police in Basildon town centre became the county’s first officers to be permanently equipped with headcams.
The devices can capture crooks in action securing potentially vital evidence.
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