UK's armed police to wear head-mounted cameras

Cameras will be attached to caps and helmets in wake of death of Mark Duggan in 2011

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Metropolitan Police firearms officers will be issued head-mounted cameras fitted to ballistic helmets and baseball caps, a recommendation that follows the death of Mark Duggan during a police shooting in 2011.

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