The Windsor Police Service is in the process approving a "very significant" infrastructure upgrade that will eventually help usher in body cams.
Chief Al Frederick notes some big challenges with the new technology, cost being one of them.
More than $1-million is on the table to be used for server upgrades, Frederick tells BlackburnNews.com.
With only one of 40 officer complaints substantiated in 2015, Frederick questions its value.
"So are we spending millions of dollars for one public complaint?" says Frederick. "Will it garner quick guilty pleas? Will it speed up the court process and perhaps reduce overtime... That's the value added that I'm looking for and that's what I'll be looking for in these other jurisdictions."
In May the Toronto Police Service launched a $500,000 body cam pilot project.
In January all 16 front-line Amherstburg police constables began using body cams. Sergeants are not equipped with the technology.
The town spent $1,200 on 23 cameras, some to be used as backups or for detectives. They also spent $13,000 on a server to store the video data.
Instead of a physical server, Windsor's chief is hoping to store body cam data on a digital database known as the cloud.
"Right now the cloud is not approved for police services in Canada to store data because of all the privacy and security issues," says Frederick. "But if those hurdles are met that will be less expensive than us hosting our own servers."
Windsor's chief says it's just a matter of time before Windsor police officers have body cams, but it won't happen "any time soon."