Philipsburg:--- The Police Force of St Maarten, Saba and St Eustatius is continuing the upgrading of its police officers in training and the necessary equipments to fight crime.With the ongoing enhancement the police force just added more technology to crime fighting by installing a camera and voice recording set to the helmets worn by the bike patrol. Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson said the use of the cameras is a pilot project and the new equipment is in its test phases.
Henson said the camera will record everything that the officer hears or sees and it is stored in color with clear vocal recordings. The expectation of the police force on the use of the new equipment is to register all images which would aid the police in fighting crime. This however, he said will increase security where ever the bike patrol is active.
Henson said the use of the recordings will be numerous as they intend to use the images to solve crimes during their investigations which would lead to people being prosecuted.
Henson said the new technology would greatly aid the bike patrols as they would no longer be required to take notes of suspicious situations, since the recordings could be used for the investigations. The police spokesman said the project has been realized by one of the advisers to the Sint Maarten Police Force Mr. Ron de Milde in close cooperation with Zenitel who has made an important contribution by making the camera and technical equipment available to start the testing.
The project will be evaluated after two months and if the results are positive and most importantly helpful to the police force then the other members of the bike patrol will be equipped with the new equipment.
