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The rollout of the Calgary police’s body-worn cameras has been going as well as the service expected it to, Calgary’s top cop said.

Interim Chief Steve Barlow, who took over the role on Oct. 19, spearheaded the project to initiate the rollout of the cameras, which the service hopes will be finished in 2019.

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“We’re getting very good feedback from the membership,” Barlow said. “As they rolled out, and in talking with some of the members out there, they’re finding it’s good to have. It’s supporting what they do every day and it’s at times, a calming measure. It’s doing everything we wanted it to.”

Police currently have 250 cameras available for use, all of which issued to officers in District 1 — an area bounded by Memorial Drive, Glenmore Trail, 14th Street S.W. and Deerfoot Trail.

By the second quarter of 2019, the service hopes to have a complete rollout for all of the roughly 1,100 front-line officers in the city.