when the friend ahmad al-fadhl was member of parliament, he had submitted a proposal in 2018 to force policemen to ‘carry cameras on their person’ so that their conversation and actions when dealing with the public and produced as evidence and prevent the men in uniform from arbitrarily treatment of civilians, improve their job performance.
in high-end countries, dubai was the first to implement the method and we had earlier called for it to be applied in kuwait. the proposal also includes a clause according to which any violation that may have been committed is automatically dropped if not supported by audio and video evidence.
in may 2018, the ministry of interior responded to the proposal and stated that it was installing cameras, audio and video, on the clothes of its employees in order to record what is going on between the general public and the police so as to preserve the rights and dignity of both parties. it turned out later that the proposal had not been implemented, other than installing cameras on patrol vehicles.
four years later, the interior and defense committee of the current national assembly approved a proposal for a law obliging security men to wear cameras that record their conversations with the public with audio and video to put an end to the complaints of several parties, and the conflicting statements made by the security men and the ‘victim’ for one reason or another. this simply means that the previous statement of the ministry of interior to the national assembly which was related to its initiation of installing audio and video cameras for security men was never implemented or that there was a reason that called the ministry at the time to stop implementing the proposal, or to stop using it.
a source in the ministry of interior, commenting on the circumstances of the imam hussein mosque incident, which was raised in the social media a few days ago, and which provoked a wave of public and parliamentary uproar and anger, revealed that during a committee from the ministry of social affairs, interior and municipality following up on mosques that collect donations without license, the members of the committee were surprised by the intervention of one of the people in charge of collecting donations, to protest when he was asked to show the identifi cation documents of the person who was collecting donations, and who showed his lack of cooperation with the committee.
therefore the imam of the mosque was referred to the police station, however, the incident was settled and no case was registered, and the donation boxes returned the next day to the mosque.
before it was settled, more than one deputy, and from more than one party, intervened in the incident, and some of them demanded the minister of interior, sheikh ahmad al-nawaf to punish the policeman and the member of the committee who attacked the imam of the mosque, to apologize to the imam and then resign from his position!
other parties also denied referring the imam to the police station, and that he did not leave the mosque at the time. 
if the security man, a member of the committee, was wearing a camera that recorded the event with audio and video, things would not have reached the level of tension and sectarian charges.

oh minister of interior, move and decide on the matter as quickly as possible, as the situation cannot be postponed. rather, it is very necessary to rush in the supply of cameras and this is what we have previously asked for more than once.