Clinton Police Officers will patrol with body cameras moving forward.

On the WHOW Morning Show Thursday Clinton Police Chief Ben Lowers told Regional Radio his officers started wearing the cameras about three weeks ago. He explains it took about a year to get the cameras in their possession and reminds - it is a response to the Safe-T legislation in Illinois.

Some law enforcement officials - Chief Lowers included - early on scoffed at the idea of body cameras on officers, however, body cameras to the surprise of many, have become a tool that in a lot of cases exonerates police in the actions they take in most cases.

While he was resistant to the idea of body cameras but then discovering their benefits, Chief Lowers believes it is still a shame there is the necessity for these devices and the deterioration of the trust in an officer's word in the court of law.

According to Chief Lowers, the effort to get body cams on its officers was quite the undertaking because they were simultaneously working on upgrading the dash cams on their vehicles.

While some critics of body cameras have been silenced, others still will say officers are behaving differently because of the accountability of body cameras. Chief Lowers believes that is not the case at all and feels it re-enforces the consistently good work of law enforcement in our communities.