Body worn camera policy Flashcards
The policy of the department is to respect the ______ _____ ______ of citizens and visitors of Clark County, while ensuring professionalism.
legitimate privacy interests
Officers will record all contacts with citizens in the following occurrences: (9)
- all dispatched calls for service involving contact with citizens or potential for contact with suspects;
- Officer initiated activities (467, 468, etc);
- Detections and/or investigations pursuant to an arrest, arrests, suspect interviews, and post- Miranda interrogations;
- search of persons, structures or vehicles, if not already activated;
- As soon as possible after the occurrence of an officer involved traffic accident;
- When driving code 3.
- Any contact that becomes adversarial when body camera had not previously been activated;
- Transport of prisoners;
- Any other citizen contact or official duty circumstance at the officer’s discretion, based on circumstances and reasonableness. (testing of narcotics, counting of seized money in the field, documenting high value found property, etc.)
Who does the supervisor advise the officer to contact if their BWC is not working?
Body Camera Section.
Per BWC policy,
During the investigation of a use of force incident the sergeant will: (5)
- Access the video on scene in the presence of the involved officer(s).
- Record the interview of the subject citizen.
- Not record the subject officer during the investigation.
- Review the video with the officer as soon as practical prior to the Use of Force report being completed, if an involved officer is unavailable at the scene.
- Ensure the review of the BWC video is documented in the narrative of the investigative comments, and ensure that the video is labeled and categorized in accordance with this policy.
Per BWC policy,
Sergeants respond to a citizen request to file a Statement of Complaint (SOC): (8)
- Handle receipts of complaints in accordance with 5/101.26, Section 2, sub-section IV.
- Interview the complainant, when possible before reviewing any available BWC video tat recorded the alleged violation.
- Record the interview with the complainant with BWC.
- Not record the subject officer during the investigation.
- Access the video on scene through a mobile device or MDT.
- If the allegation is not a violation of policy or law, notate so in the Blue team Citizen Contact that BWC video is available, was reviewed a, and is one of the justifications for the Citizen contact Report.
- If the allegation appears to be valid, notate so in the narrative of the SOC that BWC video is available, was reviewed, and is one of the justifications for the SOC.
- If during the course of the investigation, a supervisor has probable cause, based on BWC video and/or totality of circumstances, to believe a reporting citizen is in violation of NRS. 207.280 (False Reporting of Crimes Unlawful), take the appropriate enforcement action, to include creating a crime report and notification to the IAB Criminal Team.
When can an officer deactivate the BWC under the following circumstances? (8)
- The incident has concluded prior to the arrival of the officer.
- The incident or event is of such duration that deactivating the BWC is necessary to conserve available recording time.
- The BWC controller’s batter LED is red, indicating the remaining capacity is less than 20%, does not require activation of the BWC until arrival on scene unless traveling code 3.
- The officer has a reasonable belief there will be no loss of critical documentary info.
- Investigative personnel arrive and begin the formal investigative process.
- Arrival at any detention facility and just prior to entering the booking area.
- SWAT, NV CBRNE, or other on-call units activation will occur once arrived and individual officer deployment begins.
- Resident officers who ate responding to calls for service will activate their BWC when they are within 5 miles of arrival or when responding code 3.
Officers have discretion to deactivate the BWC when privacy concerns outweigh law enforcement interests and the absence of a BWC recoding will no affect the investigation. Four (4) examples:
- A citizen has requested the officer to stop recording. Officers have no obligation to stop recording in response to a citizen’s request if the recording is pursuant to a law enforcement activities, or the circumstances clearly dictate that continued recording is necessary. However, officers should evaluate the situation and, when appropriate, honor the citizen’s request.
- A citizen with standing has requested the officer stop recoding within the citizen’s residence/structure and the officer has entered the residence/structure on consent.
- If a victim or witness request not t be recorded or is uncomfortable with being recorded. Officers may consider asking non-consenting victims or witness if they would agree to the option of diverting the camera away and recoding audio only.
- Officers should be mindful of locations such as places of worship, certain locations in hospitals or clinics, law officers, and day care facilities, where recording may be considered insensitive, inappropriate, or prohibited by privacy policies.
The BWC shall not be used to record: (6)
- Any personal conversation of or between other department members without the recorded employee’s knowledge.
- Non-work related personal activity and will not be activated in places where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists (locker rooms, restrooms, dressing rooms, etc. )
- Major crime investigative briefings w/o ranking detective personnel approval.
- Encounters with UC officers or CI’s.
- Any administrative meetings, workgroups, , professional development conversation, counseling, discipline, bargaining union contractual matters, or training event.
- Large scale special events unless engaged in activity previously listed in the “activation and documentation” section.
At major incidents supervisors should:
Deploy BWC officers as necessary to meet tactical requirements and the assignment will be noted in the Major Incident Log.
At OIS’s involved personnel and/or any supervisor will not view the BWC recording prior to FIT or CIRT viewing the footage, except when articulable exigent circumstances exist. (True/False)
True.
At an OIS can involved officer view their own BWC recording, as well as any witness officers’ recordings, prior to a scene walkthrough and subsequent FIT/CIRT statement.
Will witness officers be allowed to view their own BWc recording prior to a scene walkthrough and subsequent FIT/CIRT statement.
Yes and Yes.
When can officers view their own BWC recordings: (3)
- To assist in completing an investigation and preparing official reports.
- Prior to court to refresh recollection.
- Provide a statement pursuant to an internal investigation, including officer involved shootings investigations and other deadly force or critical incidents.
Supervisors may access BWC recordings from personnel under their supervision in the following manner: (5)
- view video at the scene in the presence of the officer.
- Direct the officer to “share” the video through evidence.com.
- Ask the shift lieutenant to “share” the video through evidence.com.
- Ask the area command evidenc.com manager to “share” the video.
- Ask the Body Camera Section to “share” the video.
May evidence.com be accessed from computers/devices outside of LVMPD authorized computers?
No
How long are recordings stored for:
- Homicides?
- Felonies?
- DV and DUI arrests?
- IAB?
- 2o years.
- 10 years.
- 7 years.
- 5 years.
