Bodycam on the officers' uniforms, the announcement: "The amendment is ready"
However, the introduction of identification codes is excluded, according to Undersecretary Molteni a "harmful tool that encourages easy reporting"
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Law enforcement uniforms could soon be equipped with cameras. This was announced by the Undersecretary of the Interior Nicola Molteni, explaining that an "amendment from the government and the majority is coming to provide for bodycams to protect police force operators who never shirk and have shirked truth and transparency".
However, the introduction of identification codes is excluded, defined by the undersecretary as a "dangerous and harmful tool that encourages easy and instrumental complaints to the detriment of the work of our police forces which deserve recognition and respect" . For Molteni, they would expose the agents to "a situation of greater danger and risk" and "for these reasons - he underlined - the government and the majority have convincingly rejected" +Europa's amendment to the security bill.
«We warmly welcome the undersecretary's announcement. Now we hope that the parliamentary process will be concluded soon", comments the general secretary of SAP, Stefano Paoloni. «It is one of our historic battles to introduce not only cameras on uniforms, but also on cars and in all the environments in which we operate with people subjected to police measures , precisely to give maximum transparency to our actions and to protect ourselves from false reports towards us."
For the leader of the Autonomous Police Union, bodycams "are a modern tool, unlike identifiers which turn us into targets". Coisp leader Domenico Pianese is on the same line. The identification codes on the uniforms are «an ideological measure - he says - that political representatives of a specific area have been trying to introduce for many years with the assumption that members of the police force must be placed under a magnifying glass in whatever activity they carry out. Every year more than two thousand officers are injured during public order demonstrations or territorial controls", underlines Pianese who launches a provocation: "We believe that the identification code should be used against demonstrators who habitually commit aggression or insults towards police forces during demonstrations. It would be a sort of deterrent."
For Devis Dori and Filiberto Zaratti, AVS group leaders in the Justice and Constitutional Affairs commissions of the Chamber, «bodycams on uniforms are fine, finally, but they are not sufficient without the identification codes that the right excludes because it has a unilateral vision of public order - they underline -. The European Parliament has already expressed its opinion on the need to adopt them: the undersecretary Nicola Molteni even says that they are "against the police forces" but this is an unacceptable closure. If disturbances occur, all the protagonists must be identified and transparency is to the advantage of all parties ."
For the president of the Forza Italia senators, Maurizio Gasparri, «they will never be approved. I've been saying this for years, but I see that someone is still trying to propose this oppressive and punitive measure towards people in uniform. They resign themselves. The identification codes will never be there, while we will have bodycams to document the violence of those who attack members of the police force in the squares."
(Unioneonline/D)
