PURPOSE OF ORDER
To establish guidelines for all Bureau personnel, regarding the use of Body Worn Cameras (BWC).
SCOPE OF ORDER
All Bureau personnel.
ORDER
Bureau personnel shall comply with Manual of Policy and Procedure Section 3-06/200.08 – Body Worn Cameras-Activation.
Bureau personnel are authorized to utilize the BWC for recording “knock and notice” announcements, per Penal Code Section 844.
Bureau personnel may utilize the BWC and paired mobile phone camera for administrative pre-search and post-search recordings of a location, and any detained occupants during a search operation.
Exceptions from activating a BWC include:
• Bureau personnel assisting an outside federal or state law enforcement agency’s operation that does not authorize BWC recordings,
• Pre-planned operations that have been authorized in the operations plan as exempt from BWC activations by the Incident Commander.