Campus police across the country are reviewing procedures after a University of Cincinnati Police Officer has been indicted on a murder charge for shooting an unarmed motorist.

UNC Police Chief Jeff McCracken says campus police will discuss safety in the light of a recent shooting of an unarmed black male that had been pulled over for driving without a front license plate by a University of Cincinnati officer.

“I think all police talk about it,” he says. “We do use-of-force training regularly, as part of our required in-service training. We do active-shooter training.

“We do a lot of training to try to ensure that our officers have the tools and know how to respond when they are in these potentially life-threatening situations. Certainly, when one of these cases is publicized to the level this one is, there will be discussion about it.”

Ray Tensing is the first officer in Cincinnati to face murder charges for killing someone in the line of duty, according to local media reports.

The shooting was caught on Tensing’s body camera and is being used as key evidence that the 25-year-old Tensing initially lied to his supervisors about what happened at the traffic stop to lead to the death of 43-year-old Samuel Dubose.

McCracken adds UNC Police are close to implementing the use of body cameras on all campus officers.

“We have received body cameras,” he says. “We’re finalizing what our policy will be. And we’ll be training our officers and should have them deployed very soon.”

The prosecutor in the case is calling for the Univeristy of Cincinnati police force to be disbanded.

Tensing entered a not guilty plea in the courtroom on Thursday and was released after posting $1 million bond. He is due back in court August 19.

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