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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 19