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All Montclair State University Police Department (UPD) officers will be required to have a body camera on their uniform when reporting for duty starting on March 1. “The new practice follows several years of product and operations research and months of intensive officer training,” said Media Relations Director Erika Bleiberg, in the official press release. “University Police will fully deploy the [body-worn cameras] to all 40 of its officers for use when they are on routine patrol or dispatched on calls for service.” According to Capt. Kieran Barrett of the UPD, there are other universities in the state that currently have body cameras. “There are other campus agencies that have them in the state of New Jersey, such as Rutgers, Kean University and a few others that are south of us,” Barrett said. “Not everyone has [them] across the United States, and in New Jersey, but we definitely do have …