Every Manitoba RCMP detachment is now using body-worn cameras — with 98 per cent of all front-line officers equipped with them — a year after provincial Mounties launched the program.

“Without a doubt, they have quickly become an incredible and beneficial and important tool for all of our officers,” said Manitoba RCMP Asst. Commissioner Scott McMurchy on Thursday.

“It has provided front-line officers with many useful tools that make everyday policing easier, such as taking statements, obtaining photos of scenes, evidence and suspects.”

The cameras will also serve to make RCMP more accountable, he said.

Raw body camera footage will be sent to the province’s police oversight agency, the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba, in cases where a person is seriously hurt or killed either

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