Body Worn Cameras Flashcards
What do BWC have the potential to do?
Improve Community Relations Improve Officer Training and Evaluation Increase Agency Accountability Defend Officers Against False Accusations Lower the Number of Citizen Complaints
BWC are an effective tool to preserve factual representations of officer-citizen interactions. BWC are effective in capturing video and audio evidence for use in…
Criminal and Internal Investigations
Enhanced Officer Training
Ensure Public Trust
Officers will activate the BWC when such use is appropriate to the proper performance of duties, where the recordings are consistent with this policy and law, as soon as practical and safe, to record all contacts with citizens in the following occurrences.
- Vehicles Stops
- Person Stops: Consensual, Articulable Reasonable Suspicion, or Probable Cause
- All dispatches calls for service involving contact with citizens
- Detentions, investigations pursuant of an arrest, arrests, suspect interviews, and post-Miranda interrogations (in the filed only)
- Search of persons incident to arrest (if not already activated)
- Search warrants of structures or vehicles
- K9 searches requested by a Patrol officer
- Code 3 driving
- Pursuits: Primary and Secondary officers
- Any contact that becomes adversarial when body camera had not been activated
- Transport of Code 5 prisoners
- Any other citizen contact or official duty circumstance at the officer’s discretion.
Officers are not required to obtain consent to video/audio record except in the case of victims or witness and whenever possible and practical, should inform individuals that they are being recorded.
True
The BWC will be used to record a formal statement from a victim or a witness.
False
Officers will document the consent or non-consent on the recording at the time of the first account statement. If a victim or witness does not consent to being recorded on any event, what may the officer consider doing?
Divert the camera away from the subject and record only audio.
Officers have no obligation to stop recording in response to a citizen’s request if the recording is pursuant to _____ _____, _____, _____ _____, or the circumstances clearly dictate that continued recording is necessary. However, officers should valuate the situation and when appropriate, honor the citizen’s request. The request to turn the camera off should be recorded, as well as the officer’s response.
an investigation, arrest, lawful search
Deactivation of the BWC shall occur when…?
- The event has concluded
- Victim and/or witness contact has concluded
- All persons stopped have been released
- Once an arrestee has been placed into a vehicles to be transported to a detention facility, except when transporting Code 5 prisoners.
The camera system is configured with how many seconds of pre-event video buffer recording?
30 seconds
If a recording needs to be retained the recording officer will label the recording with the event number in the Title field and the _____ in the ID field.
400 code
When should recordings be labeled and/or categorized ?
As soon as practical after the conclusion of the event but no later than the end of the shift in which the recording occurred.
What will be written on the first line of all report narrative?
Body Camera Recording Available
What are the Supervisor’s responsibilities regarding BWCs?
- Ensure all BWC officers utilize the cameras in accordance with this policy.
- Ensure an malfunction or damage to a BWC unit is documented in PETS. The supervisor wil remove the BWC from service and contact Body Camera Detail to have the BWC repaired
- Access BWC recordings during the course of duties in accordance with the internal data access and viewing section of this policy.
What are the restrictions of BWCs?
- Any personal conversation of or between other department employees without the recorded employee’s knowledge
- Non-work related personal activity and will not be activated in places where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists, such as locker rooms, dressing rooms or restrooms
- Major crime investigative briefings without ranking ISD/HSD personnel approval
- Encounters with undercover officers or confidential informants
- Departmental meetings, workgroups, in-service training, or assignments of an operational or administrative nature. Using body cameras for training purposes such as AOST or RBT is not a violation of this restriction.
Supervisors do not have direct access to an officer’s BWC video through LVMPD.evidence.com. Supervisors may view BWC recordings from personnel under their supervision in what instances?
- Investigation following the application of report force (except use of deadly force).
- Response to a citizen request to file a statement of complaint.
- During the course of an internal investigation forwarded from IAB to the bureau for completion.
- To assist in appropriately addressing a clearly documented performance issues.
