Department personnel shall activate their body worn camera (BWC) prior to initiating, or upon arrival at, any enforcement or investigative contact involving a member of the public, including all:
- Vehicle stops;
- Pedestrian stops (including self-initiated consensual encounters);
- Calls for service;
- Code-3 responses, including vehicle pursuits;
- Foot pursuits;
- Searches;
- Arrests;
- Uses of force, including any transportation of the subject;
- In-custody transports of persons who are uncooperative, belligerent, or threatening;
- Suspect, victim, and witness interviews (except as indicated in the Manual of Policy and Procedures section 3-06/200.18, Body Worn Camera Recording Exceptions); and/or
- Any encounter with a member of the public who is or becomes uncooperative, belligerent, or otherwise hostile.
Department personnel may activate their BWC for the following reasons:
- Transportation of a member of the public; and/or
- Other investigative or enforcement activities where, in the Department member's judgment, a video recording would assist in the investigation or prosecution of a crime or when a recording of an encounter would assist in documenting the incident for later investigation or review.