Medico-legal: The use and disclosure of CCTV footage
Medical Protection’s Dr Emma Green explains the rules for disclosing CCTV footage and offers some practical advice for handling subject access requests for CCTV footage.
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Medical Protection’s Dr Emma Green explains the rules for disclosing CCTV footage and offers some practical advice for handling subject access requests for CCTV footage.
TWO 12-metre CCTV columns to catch anti-social behaviour at a popular park.
However, the guidelines empowered police and maintained public trust, the Home Office says.
Campaigners slammed proposed new CCTV guidance given to police and councils in England and Wales to compare camera footage with a watch-list (file photo).
Fraser Sampson, a former West Yorkshire Police officer who is now the Government’s independent Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, said changing laws could not keep up with emerging new methods for using physical or behavioral human characteristics to digitally identify a person. Pic: James Hardisty Part of this is the statutory Surveillance Camera Code of Practice, brought in as part of the 2012 Protection of Freedoms Act under then-Home Secretary Theresa May and currently under review by the Government. Bodies like local councils and the police must follow the code. Some bod...