Police Body Cameras

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00:00The Highlands has become the latest region with police officers equipped with body-worn video cameras while on duty.

00:08Officer safety is a really, really important factor.

00:11Often they're less likely to be assaulted if they're wearing a camera and that they're recording.

00:15And we do have a quite high rate of assaults on police in the Highlands area,

00:19so it's really beneficial and really positive for officers to have that added layer of protection.

00:24And if they are assaulted and it's caught on camera, then again, it can be used in court

00:28and it gives a really true image to the jury or to the sheriff of what happened.

00:35Witnesses haven't got to recount their experience in court because the person's gone guilty.

00:39There's a far more efficient and effective way of progressing through the justice process.

00:43We are the second division to go live in Police Scotland.

00:45So we're going live now and then there's a rollout over the next 18 months across the rest of Scotland.

00:50The way it works is the officer scans their ID card, a camera can be allocated to them.

00:56It's a Motorola VB400.

00:58This is a bookmark function here, which we use to highlight when key bits of evidence

01:03or key moments during any incident or recording.

01:06There's a clip on the back here.

01:09These click onto all of our body armours the exact same way as our radios do.

01:18Police Scotland rolled out the cameras to around 400 officers across the region,

01:23with more units to follow in the coming weeks.

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