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Tuesday 29 October 2013

Body Worn hidden Camera works as a police protector

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Body Worn Camera is the hidden camera specially make for police department for their protect. Body worn camera is works as a protector for unit of police officer in duty time. It making life easier for police officers the camera used as evidence in this case was one of 450 that hampshire police is now rolling out to its officers.



 BWV footage clearly says

Footage from another BWV camera was also crucial when villagers reported a serial drink-driver in their midst, says Stephen Goodier, an inspector with Hampshire Constabulary. In court, the suspect claimed he had never been asked to take a breathalyser test, and so could not have refused to take one, as an officer alleged. But BWV footage clearly showed him refusing to take the test. "He was banned from driving," Goodier says. "When it is one person's word against that of another before a judge and jury, the body-worn camera is an independent witness."

Staffordshire Police decided
On 13 October, Staffordshire Police decided to equip 530 officers with BWV cameras from UK firm Reveal Media after they'd been rolled out in Sweden, Germany, Denmark and France. And in the US, police departments coast-to-coast are acquiring BWV cameras from stun-gun maker Taser International, plus CopTrax of Plano, Texas, as well as Panasonic.
 BWV camera software to work with Google Glass
CopTrax just tweaked its BWV camera software to work with Google Glass so it records what the officer actually sees, rather than a view from a chest, lapel or collar cam. On 13 September police in Byron, Georgia, made the first arrest on record – a parole violator pulled over for speeding – using CopTrax's Google Glass system, which streamed officer-viewpoint video of the arrest live back to police HQ. "A chest-mounted camera does not always give as good a perspective on a scene. It can be facing the wrong way when the officer is talking to someone," says CopTrax video manager Bill Switzer.


However it is done, these on-officer cameras are generating first-person videos of interactions with the public that are already having a profound effect on policing. Confronted with footage of their actions, defendants are pleading guilty earlier, says Alasdair Field, CEO of Reveal Media. And complaints from the public about police brutality or misuse of their power can be settled faster and with less bureaucracy.

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Goodier agrees that secure, shareable video data storage is key. "We need to be able to share footage easily with anyone in the justice system that needs it," he says. "We need a policing version of YouTube."

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