Eventually everyone everywhere in agencies across Canada will have them.
The police like the idea of using them because as you quoted it reduces the number of frivolous complaints brought against many officers.
Can't speak for TPS as I don't know where they are with respect to the program but when everyone asks why some agencies don't have them yet it is primarily due to the total costs of implementing the program.
A news reporter asked the lawyer at the conference today whether he could state whether there was body worn cameras worn by any of the officers and he could not answer.
It is possible they could have had cameras on this warrant but even if they did they would have been seized by the SIU unit.
*** I looked it up and according to an article from earlier in 2021 only 20% of TPS officers had been issued body cameras at that time and as the program continued they expected all of them to have them by late in the year.
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