Around 70 Capitol Police officers soon will be equipped with body-worn cameras, part of a pilot program to help determine if the department should use them.
Only those on duty outside will be wearing the body cameras, meaning no officers within the Capitol building or House and Senate office buildings will have them, according to three sources familiar with the department’s plans. Officers involved in direct interactions with lawmakers, such as Dignitary Protection Division special agents who protect and travel with leadership, won’t wear the cameras.
The first officers will be trained on the cameras and start wearing them in as soon as two weeks, and all officers in the program will start wearing the cameras as soon as March, one source said.
