It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

"The most serious allegations include:

*Cases in seven forces where officers shared camera footage with colleagues or friends - either in person, via WhatsApp or on social media

*Images of a naked person being shared between officers on email and cameras used to covertly record conversations

*Footage being lost, deleted or not marked as evidence, including video, filmed by Bedfordshire Police, of a vulnerable woman alleging she had been raped by an inspector - the force later blamed an “administrative error”

*Switching off cameras during incidents, for which some officers faced no sanctions - one force said an officer may have been “confused”

        • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          1 year ago

          You had a post vanish? That’s happened to me a few times, too, very rarely. Funky fediverse. Hope it was something short, not something with six long paragraphs that took you half an hour to bang out… :)

          • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            No, it didn’t vanish. I think as the comment I was replying to was at the bottom of the page, and I’d tabbed away to grab that wiki link, I mistook the reply to thread text box as the reply to comment text box.

            (I wrote a bloody long essay about tardigrades for a tumblr conversation the other day, spent hours researching it and getting my words out just right and editing in pictures. Just as i was about to post it, I dropped my phone, and while fumbling for it closed the app. Fuck me, I almost cried, haha. I was very lucky i somehow hit post during that fumble, it was a really nice surprise when I checked the app several hours later too!)