OCEAN CITY – Ocean City’s police chief says a new body-worn camera program is now in place.
In an Ocean City Police Commission meeting Monday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) Chief Ross Buzzuro presented an update on the resort’s new body-worn camera program.
“Everyone in the field, everyone in the department, has gotten the training and wears body-worn cameras,” he told commission members this week.
Last year, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation mandating law enforcements agencies to use body-worn cameras by 2025. Last July, however, the OCPD announced plans to launch a program by the start of the 2022 summer season.
Since that time, officials have formed a committee, met with camera vendors, initiated trial runs and selected the private provider Axon as its vendor. And as of this month, Buzzuro said, all officers have been trained and equipped with body-worn cameras.