{"id":154235,"date":"2020-11-30T14:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154235"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:56:42","slug":"forces-should-do-more-to-share-body-worn-video-to-show-two-sides-to-every-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154235","title":{"rendered":"Forces should do more to share body-worn video to show two sides to every story"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORCES should do more to share footage from police officers\u2019 body-worn cameras to show that there are two sides to every story, the Essex Police Federation Chair has said.<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Laura Heggie was speaking after the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council hit out at the \u201chideous phenomenon\u201d of members of the public sharing mobile phone footage online.<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Martin Hewitt, NPCC Chair, said:\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>We are seeing bits of footage released\u2026 they go viral and officers and their forces get pilloried. I can only imagine how hideous that must be if you were that officer. There\u2019s a real opportunity to get some guidance out quickly here\u2026 to make sure everyone understands the parameters. It\u2019s also about the mindset that we are going to do everything that we can do positively to counter some of the nonsense that we see. It\u2019s a hideous phenomenon.\u201d<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Essex Police is now doing more to defend officers when footage is shared online, Laura said. She said: \u201cThe force needs to stand up for their officers. Nobody\u2019s saying that anyone\u2019s done anything right or wrong necessarily, but they should be able to give a balanced account of what\u2019s happening rather than a bland and ambiguous statement. If they don\u2019t do that, you can\u2019t complain when the public comes to their own conclusions.<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has got a mobile phone now and I don\u2019t think people really consider the potential consequences of what they\u2019re posting online. This is a real shame because it can be devastating for officers when it goes viral online. That officer is then being identified and subject to a lot of unjust and unfair commentary. And their family is seeing that. We can\u2019t stop people filming things, but forces can do more to provide accurate information when this happens.\u201d<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The Police Federation of England and Wales has been campaigning for forces to release body-worn video and are now in discussions with the Home Office \u2013 and the move has the support of Home Secretary and Essex MP Priti Patel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FORCES should do more to share footage from police officers\u2019 body-worn cameras to show that there are two sides to every story, the Essex Police Federation Chair has said. Laura\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154356,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235\/revisions\/154356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}