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Volume 15
August 2017 Edition
Bodycams for Today’s
Multi-Agency Law En-
forcement & First
Responders
evidence necessary to make a legal decision.
Written by David Wasserstrom, Executive Manager, Sentinel
Camera systems, LLC
Sentinel Camera Systems introduces the Protector, a new
live-streaming 4G LTE Body Camera that transmits live
video, audio, and GPS location in real time, day or night, to
a central command center, while simultaneously recording
the video on the camera itself.
Sentinel Camera Systems has intro-
duced one of the first body cameras
designed to enhance law enforcement
situational awareness.
The need for Law Enforcement body cameras
has been growing rapidly.
Incidents where lives have been at stake have
recently been made public that have supported
law enforcement officials or supported citizens in
the value of body camera usage.
The video recorded on site by an officer’s body
camera has provided the evidence necessary to
support an acquittal or a guilty verdict – based
on proof of what the camera actually viewed and
recorded.
Up to now the recorded body camera video has
always taken time to access; it has to be down-
loaded, analyzed, but eventually provides the
The Protector body camera has the ability to
stream live video and audio over the broadband
network, directly from an incident in the field to a
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