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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Highway Patrol is equipping a new fleet of cars with digital video cameras as part of an effort it says could save troopers' lives.
Switching to the new technology will eventually allow dispatchers and supervisors to view squad-car video feeds in real time.
V-H-S video cameras were installed in patrol cars in the early 1990s to capture traffic incidents on tape.
Digital video cameras will serve that same function but also allow transmission of real-time video.
A dispatcher, for example, could watch a trooper's high-speed pursuit as it happened.
Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com
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