Where are the cameras on the police officers that we were promised at the beginning of this year?

TLDR; The cameras that the police officers are supposed to wear on their uniforms are supposedly planned for this year and were supposedly part of the MUP’s planned budget for 2025, but I don’t see that they have appeared anywhere or that anyone is talking about them. EDIT: In the meantime, I found that the tender was canceled and the project was postponed/cancelled again: https://forbes.dnevnik.hr/aktualno/nista-od-mup-ove-nabave-kamera-za-policijske-odore-natjecaj-ponisten-hoce-li-biti-novog/

After yesterday’s incident in TriljI decided to do a little research to see if there was any news about police body cameras that all police officers would be required to wear. I did this because I remember that something like that was tried back in 2015, but the project was stopped after that incident with an elderly woman in Osijek (cited in this article).

From 2015 until today, it was talked about several times, and in my search I found i an article from last year that says the following:

"ALL UNIFORMED members of the Croatian police will wear cameras on their uniforms, the use of which will be mandatory during every intervention, it says. tportal.

The project of purchasing this system and equipping the policemen will start during the next year. The budget of the Ministry of the Interior for next year will provide funds for this purpose.

"The recording of interventions will first of all serve to protect police officers from unjustified accusations against them, and then also to protect citizens from possible abuse of authority and excessive use of force."explained one of tportal’s interlocutors.

This project, as announced, will be presented to the public in the coming weeks."

So, this idea is not something distant and unattainable, but there was already a time when some police officers wore cameras and filmed their interventions, that project was stopped, and funds were allegedly approved for the MUP last year to introduce the cameras THIS YEAR. EDIT: I found that the contest has been canceled: https://forbes.dnevnik.hr/aktualno/nista-od-mup-ove-nabave-kamera-za-policijske-odore-natjecaj-ponisten-hoce-li-biti-novog/

Also, according to the police’s statements about yesterday’s event (ex of the article):

"According to the police, the arrested man first verbally and then physically attacked the police officer. You can’t see it on the video."

Aren’t the promised cameras the perfect solution for this kind of problem (as they said before)?

Isn’t this situation the perfect time to start this conversation? Cameras were promised last year and supposedly funds were given for it and now we have a controversial situation that these cameras would solve? Is there any journalist who would like to talk about this (because I think this would be very interesting news)?

Also, why news about the incident in Trilj since yesterday it is no longer among the most read news on the index? As I recall, last night it rose very quickly to the top 3 news, what happened? When I look at the number of comments, the current top 3 news (1,2,3) have the following number of comments (at the time of writing this post): 63, 173, 73, and this news from yesterday afternoon (so still in the last 24 hours), has 326 comments. Is it some kind of unusual phenomenon where there was a big difference between readership and commenting? Maybe some kind of bug on their website? Maybe they themselves removed it from the most read news? If so, why? If they said something that is illegal, shouldn’t the entire article be removed, not just its visibility reduced? Isn’t this a great opportunity to get clicks and profits? I’m just pointing out something that caught my eye and I think you might be interested, I’m not making any accusations, and everything I said you can check for yourself.

I am very interested in the safety of citizens and trust in state institutions, which we critically lack, and I believe that I am not the only one and that in a democratic society, politics should come from the wishes of the citizens (as long as it is possible to implement it legally without violating the constitution). I don’t see any problems with this idea, and apparently neither does the MUP. So can we first focus on introducing something like this, which we obviously all agree on, instead of the controversial chat control?

Nothing, I’m going to continue doing my job, and I hope some journalist sees this and does his job. Maybe cameras are being introduced, but I don’t know about that.