Manila, May 13 -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) plans to acquire another 32,136 body cameras for its police stations and units nationwide for use in anti-crime operations.
In a statement on Thursday, PNP chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said this would complete the police force's requirement of 34,832 body cameras.
He said 2,696 body cams earlier purchased by the PNP have already been distributed to the different police stations and units in key cities across the country.
"But in the meantime that there is still no budget for this additional procurement, we will make use of what we have and hopefully, this would convince our lawmakers to fund additional body cameras for the PNP in the spirit of transparency and effective law enforcem...