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Surveillance Camera Commissioner바카라 사이트™s annual report, 2017 to 2018 published

Today (22 January) the Surveillance Camera Commissioner바카라 사이트™s fifth annual report was laid before Parliament.

• From: Surveillance Camera Commissioner
• Published: 22 January 2019

In his report the commissioner highlights:

• his extensive survey of all police forces in England and Wales to understand their surveillance camera 바카라 사이트˜footprint바카라 사이트™ and how they are complying with legal requirements under the Protection of Freedoms Act (PoFA) and the surveillance camera code. All forces now have a Senior Responsible Officer responsible for force compliance with the PoFA
• building momentum behind the National Surveillance Camera Strategy for England and Wales to deliver:
  • the first Question Time style event to enable serious debate on how surveillance cameras and associated technology impact on citizens
  • a series of national workshops aimed at local authorities to advise them how to comply with the 12 guiding principles in the surveillance camera code
  • the first horizon-scanning report to enable us to peer into the future at how surveillance cameras may develop
  • cybersecurity considerations across all strands of the strategy from standards to training
  • developing a new 바카라 사이트˜Buyers바카라 사이트™ Toolkit바카라 사이트™ 바카라 사이트“ an easy-to-follow guide for non-experts (aimed at small to medium enterprises) that are thinking about buying a surveillance camera system, and want to ensure that they buy an effective system that does what they want it to do
• formulation and first meetings of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition Independent Advisory Group, chaired by the commissioner, to scrutinise the deployment and operation of automatic number plate recognition as a surveillance tool
• the emergence of automatic facial recognition as a viable technology used by both state and private organisations.

Surveillance Camera Commissioner Tony Porter said:

Yet again it바카라 사이트™s been an incredibly busy and challenging year. I바카라 사이트™ve continued to see lots of great examples of good practice from relevant authorities and those who fall outside the scope of this definition. Equally there is room for improvement and I am working with the strand leads on the National Surveillance Camera Strategy to raise standards.

Published 22 January 2019