Edmonton police partner with tech firm for body-cam video redaction work

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) announced Wednesday it has entered into a partnership with a local technology firm that employs people with autism to edit video from body cameras worn by officers.

EPS said it is entering into an agreement with Technology North after they successfully finished a research development project together over the last six months.

The project used four of Technology North’s employees who are on the autism spectrum to do work of redacting video footage from body-worn cameras.

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“This very instrumental partnership will become more and more important to the service that we get to provide Edmontonians and Albertans in relation to body worn video,” Supt. Derek McIntyre of the police’s information and analytics division said Wednesday during a media conference.

“During the research project, we took a lot of various steps in relation to the accuracy …