There is sometimes discussion in other cities about whether or not to purchase body cameras for police officers.

But in Junction City the police confim the officers have had them for some time.

Dan Breci, Junction City Police Captain, said the department has about 50 body cameras. “Every officer on the department has a body camera. We are fortunate, we have had in-car cameras since about 1995, and we’ve had body cameras for the last two years. So when Ferguson came up in national, everybody’s talking about officers needing body cameras, well we’ve  had those.

Breci said the JCPD has had positive results with the body cameras. “It’s great when if we do get a citizen’s complaint, the officer had his equipment on, we can clear that without them going through a long process because we can show the complainant right away this is what actually happened, this is what was said.