The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Division of Law Enforcement finished rolling out its body camera program last week.
Nearly all its 853 sworn members now have the devices, according to an agency spokesperson.
Last month, one FWC officer’s body camera captured video of a Florida panther trapped on the side of a highway.
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The panther had walked away from a South Florida wildlife refuge.
The body camera footage showed a driver who used her truck to help herd the panther back to safety.
In the future, those body cameras are likely to show the public more than just cranky panthers.
FWC officers can make arrests, execute search warrants, carry guns and seize wildlife.
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They join five local law enforcement agencies in Northeast Florida with body camera programs.
Action News Jax looked through the Florida Deptartment of Law Enforcement’s most recent data on body cameras, which is from September 2018.
Here’s a list of which local agencies have them and which don’t, according to that data: