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WhatsApp With Those Cops?
posted (October 3, 2016)
Our next story is about community policing, but not the kind we usually see on the news. This one is about making police more responsive to and engaged with the community. Police in Belize Rural have found arresting ways to use Whatsapp for more than just idle chatter. Daniel Ortiz found out more:...

So, since they are so much into technology, would rural police consider wearing body cameras? That's the kind used by police in developed countries where everything the officer does is caught on camera.

The Rural Police Commander told us that he would see it as a progressive step to police transparency:

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