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Montreal police will not equip its officers with body cameras any time soon.

Police departments across North America are moving toward the practice some studies suggest can reduce excessive force complaints against officers and increase guilty pleas from suspects.

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But after studying the issue during a pilot project, Montreal police and the chairman of the city’s public security commission said Friday they have serious reservations about it.

Police equipped 78 officers with body cameras for a seven-month period ending in 2017. A study of the pilot project suggests use of the devices did not result in a decrease of officers using force.

Pascal Lacquement, the project’s director, said the cost of storing thousands of hours of data and equipping 3,000 officers with body cameras would be “astronomical.”

The study suggests buying the equipment, training the officers and implementing new software will cost $17.4 million over five years and another $24 million annually in administration fees.