Case Study: West Lafayette Police Department achieves policy-based automatic recording with Coreforce

West Lafayette Police Department deploys Coreforce body cameras with policy-based recording and 2-minute pre-incident capture

The West Lafayette Police Department (WLPD) faced a challenge common to many agencies: ensuring officers activated their body-worn cameras during critical incidents as required by policy. The manual activation of their first-generation system often resulted in a lack of crucial video evidence, which eroded public trust and created potential for disciplinary and political fallout. To solve this, WLPD partnered with vendor Coreforce to implement their advanced EOS body-worn camera system, which offered Policy-Based Automatic Recording.

Coreforce's solution utilized smart technology to automatically trigger recordings, removing human error and bias. The system was configured with automatic triggers such as emergency lights, door openings, gun draws from a smart holster, and even an officer running or falling. This ensured full policy compliance and provided critical pre-event recording context. As a result, the WLPD achieved consistent, bias-free evidence collection, which significantly increased public trust, agency transparency, and executive accountability.

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