The Justice Department said federal agents and officers will wear body cameras when serving arrest warrants and conducting raids.
The Justice Department on Monday announced it will require federal agents to wear body cameras when serving arrest warrants or conducting raids, a shift that aligns federal law enforcement more closely with the growing legion of local police officers who wear such devices., will affect about 20,000 federal agents and deputies at the FBI, ATF, DEA and U.S. Marshals Service.
“Although the Department’s law enforcement components do not regularly conduct patrols or routinely engage with the public in response to emergency calls,” Monaco wrote in the memo, “there are circumstances where the Department’s agents encounter the public during pre-planned law enforcement operations.”
The memo directs law enforcement officials to develop policies in the next 30 days that govern the use of such cameras. The memo also instructs Justice Department officials to train federal prosecutors on how to handle such recordings as evidence.The move follows a policy change in October that permitted local officers to wear such devices while serving on federal task forces, a shift that affected more than 10,000 local, state and tribal officers.
Justice Department officials continued to study the matter and concluded that requiring agents to wear cameras on raids and while serving warrants made sense because those were the situations that might result in the use of force.
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