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ACPO Position on Personal Digital Recording Equipment
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) released a statement on its web site (on 12 July) regarding the association's position on the use of personal digital recording equipment.
Ken Jones, President of ACPO said: “The introduction of personal digital recording equipment for police officers and staff brings benefits and risks which ACPO will now more fully consider. The interim Home Office guidance and research document will now be subjected to critical review.
Arguably the guidance and research (which focused on a small number of geographical areas) underplays some of the risks, especially those which might accompany a more general deployment as opposed to the narrower established roles for this sort of technology. We need to guard against creating an expectation that all police activity ought to be supported by the use of digital recording technology. If we are not careful our relationship with communities may be changed for ever.
Many forces are already experimenting with this technology – independent of the research – and the time is right for us to address this strategically. The availability of new funding allows us to develop a sensible approach to the use of this technology, which delivers benefits to the public, the service and its partners.”
