Personal Witness Body Worn CCTV System

The “My Witness” Video Badge. A simple and safe way to protect your lone workers.

DOWNLOAD THE 'MY WITNESS' VIDEO BADGE PRODUCT SPEC (pdf)

In education, industry and government departments individuals are delivering services one on one with the public. From police and parking wardens on the streets, teachers in classrooms, to local government officials and security guards they are asked to deal with members of the public one to one in field based operations. Most of the time this work occurs without incident but sometimes they would like backup to show an impartial view of events.

The My Witness range of personal witness systems from Scottish Communications provides that impartial view using state of the art video and audio recording hardware and Enterprise grade back office software to store and manage the video evidence that your employees collect. All of this is carried out and complies with the security and data protection standards that the public should expect from professional companies and public bodies.

• Provide Staff with an independent witness on events to reassure them that health and safety is paramount.
• Reduce time investigating complaints from the public.
• Collect evidence for submission to law enforcement agencies and courts with proper audit trails.
• Comply with data protection and privacy laws on storage of video data.
• Works in a scalable way for multiple sites
• Easy to use badge format which is familiar, and non- threatening to the public.

Our Personal Witness System takes care of the processing of sensitive evidential footage in a manner that complies with Data Protection Guidelines for Video data.

We can enforce standards across your enterprise to ensure your remote staff cannot leak video onto the internet. We enforce multiple levels of security to only allow authorized individuals to view footage and audit what they are viewing to ensure public privacy is not violated.

The system is designed in a scalable way to allow multiple remote sites to collect video with centralized viewing capabilities using web technology – we have a system that works from 1 camera to 10000.

Case Study

Trials by Devon & Cornwall Police showed Body Worn Video had achieved the following results:-

• 12.8% reduction in violent crime
• 22.4% reduction in officer time spent on paperwork
  and preparation
• 14.3% reduction in complaints against police
• 27% increase in incidents converted to a crime report
• 7.3% increase in offences brought to justice, relating
  to violent crime
• 50 minute increase in time spent on foot or mobile patrol for each 9 hour shift

Source: ‘Guidance for the police use of body-worn video devices’  Home Office.

System Components
	Video badge – easy to wear lightweight badge that can record up to 10 hrs of video in HD resolution with its integral camera. The unit only weighs 130g and the robust, waterproof aluminum body is designed for daily professional use. Each badge can be customized with a standard size ID badge which clips into place, to identify each user or their function. The badge supports clip or lanyard mounting. Other customized options can be supported
	Download and charge station allows 7 units to be downloaded and charged simultaneously. This unit connects to the local management station which stores the captured video. Individual users can also have a single cable connection to download and charge to the Management Station.
	Optional Head Camera - This camera can plug into the video badge to allow a head mounted camera option useful for specialized users such as firearms officers.
LOCAL MANAGEMENT STATION	This PC downloads and stores all the video badges in the local site. It is also where the user can check out and manage the individual badges.
CENTRAL VIDEO PORTAL	This website allows video to be uploaded from each site and viewed by authorized personnel. Remote sites can have their incidents reviewed by head office in a browser in a secure way.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS
You require a secure easy to use system which can scale across a whole geographic area. MyWitness provides the security you need:

• RECORDER
  Our purpose designed recorder allows secure storage of video with RSA encryption and built in storage – run for 10 hours on a single charge.
• CAMERA
  Our Badge has a built in HD camera or we can use an external camera feed for specialized operations and headcams.
• SIMPLE CONTROL
  Our simple slider control allows the camera to be operated with gloved hands without distracting the operator.
• BACK OFFICE SOFTWARE
  Large scale deployment can generate Gigabytes of data per day. Our Video Vault software can handle this without increasing your IT support staff . Our scalable storage and web architecture allows you to grow without limits.
• SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  

  Requires XP professional or Windows Vista. Storage size depends on length of time you wish to retain data – please discuss with us your specific application