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to this deployment. Each year, there are nearly 6,000 reported incidents of assaults on prison officers within English and Welsh prisons, 700 of which resulted in serious injury last year. With incident figures rising by a third in 2016, the protection of staff and prisoners is high on the government’s agenda. As part of UK wide reform, the introduction
of body worn cameras within Her Majesty’s Prison Service in England and Wales, and subsequently in Northern Ireland and Scotland, was seen to be an effective, safe and scalable measure for tackling some of the abusive behaviour within the service. Although complex in its design, this solution
ensures that the day to day operation of prison wide wearable cameras is simple to manage, unobtrusive for staff and easily scaled upon demand. The cameras worn by prison officers are capable of recording up to eight hours of footage including audio, and come with flexible mounting options for uniforms. The entire solution is secure and encrypted, so that even in the worst circumstance, a lost or stolen camera’s footage cannot be viewed, deleted or shared. The aspect of security was an essential
element for those prison services using body worn cameras. With the original impetus
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for procuring the devices stemming from a need to protect personnel within prisons, the cameras have effectively de-escalated situations which in the past would have almost certainly resulted in verbal if not physical abuse of staff. Feedback from prisons using the devices
shows that staff feel more confident in asserting themselves during conflict, and prisoners have verbalised the benefits to them, stating that it enforces true and just accounts of incidents, and places responsibility and consequence on those at fault.
Expanding market
Despite still being a relatively young industry, there has been huge growth in the body worn camera market over the last few years. More and more sectors are looking at them as a solution to improve security, transparency and training. An expanding marketplace also brings
with it new challenges for suppliers. Our company is at the forefront of innovation within this sector and, as demand grows for its product, new cameras and accessories have to be produced to meet the growing needs of users.
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