West Midlands Police to live-stream body cam footage

A police force has become the first UK force to switch on live-streaming on its body-worn cameras.

When activated, commanders or specialists elsewhere can log in to see what is happening and offer advice, or deploy reinforcements when necessary. "We'll be looking at using it in areas where we have people in crisis, so that we can get the right advice and help there, but actually as officers start to use this I think more and more ideas will come in to make us more efficient and better."

In one, an officer was able to show forensic officers the scene of a stabbing, so they were able to assess the situation and decide which areas needing searching before specialist teams arrived.

So do we have to pay a subscription to watch?

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£75 per annum subscription required?

Surely this invades the privacy of anyone they interact with for whatever reason

Should all be doing it after what i seen on Saturday. 2 police arresting a very drunken disorderly disturbing people eating and falling in the road. As they are 20 teens turn up worh phones to video and start intimidating the situation shouting “police brutality” and pushing..

Ye this cctv thing should be on as soon as they start there shift ...

Another pointless gimmick from a failed force.

Make it public and put ads on it to raise money for charity

Will there be adverts?

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