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Greenville Police to purchase more body cameras

The use of body cameras will be expanded soon throughout the Greenville police force. George Olsen has more.

The Greenville City Council this week approved the purchase of 80 new body-worn video cameras for use by the Greenville Police Department. A press released from the City of Greenville says seized asset funds will be used to purchase the cameras. An additional ten cameras will be purchased using a federal grant. With the 23 cameras the department has been using since January 2013 the Greenville Police Department will have enough cameras so that all patrol officers will have one. Video captured by the cameras is fed and saved to city-owned servers. Greenville Police Chief Hassan Aden said the camera’s ability to allow encounters between the police and citizens to be reviewed “is priceless.” I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.