A long-delayed pilot program under which 1,200 New York City police officers are to wear body cameras can begin next week as planned, after a federal judge in Manhattan on Friday denied a request by civil lawyers to halt the plan for review.

In an order, Judge Analisa Torres said an objection filed this week by lawyers who brought the suit that led to the program’s creation was premature.

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the initial lawsuit, filed a letter on Wednesday in Federal District Court arguing that the draft policy governing how the cameras would be used and how the resulting footage woud be retrieved and stored was seriously flawed. Their request came after the policy was approved by the independent monitor overseeing stop-and-frisk changes ordered by the court.

Judge Torres said on Friday that the approval of the monitor, Peter L. Zimroth, was not subject to court review because it was not a final recommendation.