The Taber Police Service is equipping its officers with body worn cameras. (Photo: Taber Police Service)

By David Opinko

Taber Police officers now wearing body cams

May 16, 2025 | 10:48 AM

It is a move that is meant to increase accountability for police officers and protect the public.

The Taber Police Service (TPS) says it is deploying body-worn cameras on all of its officers this month. The service’s patrol officers are the first to be equipped.

That follows a mandate from the Government of Alberta in March 2023 for all police agencies.

The goals of the devices, say TPS, are to:

• Protect police officers from unfounded allegations of misconduct
• Increase the efficiency and transparency in how complaints against police are conducted
• Aid in de-escalating the behaviour of people who are aware that a recording is in progress
• Improve evidence collection, documentation, early case resolution, and successful prosecutions
• Enhance transparency, trust, confidence, officer accountability and professionalism

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The cameras are approximately the size of a pack of cards and are to be worn on the front of an officer’s uniform.

Recording of audio and video are activated by the officers during interactions with the public when the nature of an interaction is known to be investigative or enforcement-related in nature.

When the cameras are recording, you will be able to see a red light.

Sections 33(c) and 33(b) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act authorize the collection of information from the public. The recordings are disclosed to the courts when required, but private information of third parties captured in any recording is first redacted.

Legally, officers are not required to inform the public that they are being recorded during an interaction, but they are trained to do so when they can.

READ MORE: Alberta to mandate body cams for all police services