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Findings and Recommendations
7 findings
The use of BWCs responds to public demands for greater law enforcement transparency. Response: Agree. BWCs, when recording lawful police conduct, provide positive risk management benefits.
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Response: Agree. S 1 2 2016 ECEIVED Honorable Judge Mark E. Hood August 10, 2016
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BWC recordings can serve as a valuable officer training resource. Response: Agree.
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Law enforcement best practices now include law enforcement's use of BWCs when funds have been made available for their purchase and that of required data storage capacity. Response: Agree.
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At a minimum in California, written department policies must comply with the requirements of Penal Code Section 832.18. Response: Agree. The Monterey Regional Airport Police Department provides BWCs for its officers' use in
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accordance with an official, but only oral, department policy regarding their use. Disagree. MPAD provides BWC's for its officers' use in accordance with an official, Response: written department policy. MPAD's written policy was in place since 2012, the year when BWCs were initially deployed by the MPAD Police Department.
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The Monterey Regional Airport Police Department's BWC policy does not meet all of the requirements of the Penal Code Section 832.18. Disagree. MPAD's written BWC policy fully complies with the requirements of Penal Response: Code section 832.18. Penal Code section 832.18 requires that agencies consider a list of enumerated best practices in preparing and adopting policies related to the use of BWCs. However, it does not require the inclusion of those provisions in the final policy. In preparing its policy, the MPAD Police Chief considered the provisions of Penal Code 832.18 and adopted a policy that best meets the operational needs of the MPAD police department given the current resources of the department. Honorable Judge Mark E. Hood August 10, 2016
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