Interestingly, this will not be the first time that Samsung has collaborated with a North American police force. In fact, the giant from Suwon (Seoul) had already worked in the past with the Colorado Police that used the Galaxy S9 to fight crime, while the Chicago Police also integrated DeX into their patrol vehicles.
We now have new pilot projects being carried out by the police forces of the city of Kimberling or the Indian Point Police in Missouri, among others, who have recently begun to use a foldable mobile phone as a body camera to document their field work. Specifically, the model is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 from 2022.
The news was published by Samsung itself in its newsroom, announcing that within its corporate social responsibility a project had been initiated to reuse the Galaxy Z Flip through which up to 25 police departments in five states of the United States had been equipped, in order to use them as body cameras in the basic equipment of the officers.
The idea is a good one, without a doubt, because this type of terminal allows the main camera module to be used when folded, also protecting the main screen against blows or any incident that the devices may suffer during the patrol.
In any case, certain modifications are obviously required on a terminal that, as standard, could not keep recording video when folded. In addition, the volume button has been reassigned precisely to control the video, being able to start or stop the recording with a single press.
In the pursuit of full transparency in the line of duty, Samsung and Visual Labs have collaborated with up to 25 police forces in the United States to reuse Galaxy Z Flip units as body cameras in the core staffing of officers and patrol cars.
These changes have been executed by Samsung in collaboration with Visual Labs, which has optimized the Galaxy Z Flip for use as police devices following the instructions of the agents themselves and their recommendations.
The objective is the total transparency that the police seek in their acts of service, especially in a country like the United States where complaints about abuses of authority and/or cases of injured or dead suspects have grown greatly in recent times. Of course, no one has talked about how privacy and security will be taken care of, nor about who will have access to the images recorded by the agents.
Curious, at least, it is… Let’s see if they tell us more details about this pilot project in the coming weeks!
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