(VOVworld) - US President Barack Obama on Monday announced 263 million dollars in funding for law enforcement agencies to purchase body cameras and improve police training across the country.

US President Barack Obama

Obama noted that the funding he asked for is a response to last week's decision by a Missouri grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American youth, in the town of Ferguson. 75 million dollars will be used to purchase 50,000 body cameras to record police officer’s on-the-job performance. Obama asked Congress on Monday to approve the motion, not as emergency funding, but as an addition to his budget request for fiscal 2015.