UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras (thestack.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:00AM from the interesting-moves dept.

An anonymous reader writes: London's Metropolitan Police Service has begun a roll-out of 22,000 Body Worn Video (BWV) cameras to officers over the city's 32 boroughs after ten years of country-wide trials. The device, which records video only when the officer decides, has a 130-degree field of view and a 30-second buffer which permits police to begin recording even after an event has started. The makers of the camera also provide an Android/iOS app which can allow a remote viewer to connect to an officer's camera, effectively turning police operatives into walking CCTVs. Academic research has suggested that use of BWV cams can reduce complaints against officers by 93%, and the Met contends that the new technology, whose cloud-based systems erases unwanted videos after 31 days, is particularly effective in domestic violence cases.

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Re:Nearly useless by pen-helm · 2016-10-17 12:14 · Score: 3, Informative

An in-depth article about when cop cams work and when they make things worse:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consu...
("... the problem seems to arise mainly when officers are allowed to turn cameras on at times of their own choosing.")