siliconindia | | December 20198BODY WORN CAMERAS: NECESSITY FOR POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO CAPTURE REAL-TIME EVIDENCEBy Manish Agarwal, Director, Secureyen today's technological era of advanced equipment, we are quite adaptive in using lat-est products to ensure safety and security of us as well as society. In past few years it's quite evident to see the usage of internet has increases manifold. And in that course, these days anyone can eas-ily upload video footage on various platforms and start a live streaming of any incident.Now when it comes to security and safety, Security officers or Po-lice Officers comes into mind. Many state governments have ruled to make compulsory for Police Offic-ers and Security personnel to wear body worn camera. This will enable them to record any incident occurring at the scene of crime or even during normal conversation after any secu-rity alert. This will help to enhance the transparency as well as alertness that how any crime or security alerts is handled.However, the prac-tice of adoring Body Worn Cameras is at its initial phase, but slowly it is becoming standard equipment in the Police Department and a part of dress for Police officers across the nation.Overview of Body Worn CamerasBody worn cameras are small device that can be clipped with collar or pockets. The batteries last for more than 6 to 8 hours with continuous high quality recordings. It can also re-cord videos in bad lighting conditions like dark places or at nights.Benefits of Body Worn CamerasThere are several benefits of Body Worn Cameras; here are few of them as follows:Better Transpar-ency: Body worn cam-eras may result in bet-ter transparency and accountability and thus it improves the law en-forcement legitimacy. Video captured during the conversation with the community at crime scene or real-time video capturing can help to solve the case and also it would de-velop a confidence amongst civilians and police officials.Improved Accountability: Police body cameras can provide actual vid-eos and audios of the event which can independently verify what happened in that situation. Recording interactions with residents is likely to minimize the complaints related to the behavior of Police Officers. Both officers and citi-zens may tend to be more restrained, knowing that the camera is capturing their words and actions.Secureye provides complete security and surveillance solutions like biometric attendance system, CCTV cameras, Entrance Security gates and Video Door Phones.IIN MY OPINIONManish Agarwal, Director
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