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South & East Lincolnshire Council’s Partnership (The Partnership) is committed to ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its staff, service users and anyone else who may be affected by its activities. This policy has been developed to ensure that The Partnership’s front line enforcement officers using Body Worn Video Camera (BWVC) devices do so in a lawful, reasonable, justifiable and proportionate manner.

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the operational use of BWV is lawful, proportionate, legitimate and necessary; that it will be only used when deemed necessary for the purposes of violence reduction or evidence collection by trained staff in accordance with legislation, policy and procedures.  It sets out roles and responsibilities, provides staff with the correct procedures for collecting, downloading, processing and presenting video evidence, appropriate retention etc.  This policy will ensure all BWVC devices are used reasonably, justifiable and proportionately and that the product of BWVC devices is stored, retained, reproduced and disposed of appropriately.