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Pleasanton Police Department ATTACHMENT 4 Pleasanton PD Policy Manual Body Worn Camera Systems 450.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE This policy provides guidelines for the implementation of audio and video recording of field activity through the use of Body Worn Camera Systems (BWCS), by members of the Department while in the performance of their official law enforcement duties. The primary use of BWCS is intended to assist and enhance the mission of the Department by providing documentary evidence for use in criminal investigations, prosecutions, internal or administrative personnel investigations, civil claims and litigation, and any other evidentiary -based hearings in which the Pleasanton Police Department members are called upon to provide evidence and/or testimony regarding events that occurred during the course and scope of their law enforcement duties. 450.2 POLICY Wearing the BWCS: All Department members, including Police Managers who are assigned a BWCS shall wear the device when working any uniformed assignment and shall activate the device as provided in this Policy. Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, any Department member assigned to a non -uniformed position, including the Criminal Investigations Unit, the Special Enforcement Unit, and SWAT, including Police Managers, shall wear and activate the device during pre -planned enforcement encounters such as probation searches, parole searches, arrests or search warrant entries, gang enforcement, or as directed by a Supervisor. Police Managers are exempt from wearing their BWCS while inside the Department or while performing administrative functions. 450.3 ACTIVATION OF THE BODY WORN CAMERA SYSTEM This policy is not intended to describe every possible circumstance in which the BWCS should be used, however, it should be used when the officer or Supervisor reasonably determines that it would be appropriate and/or valuable to the documentation of a law enforcement related incident. Unless it is not safe or practical to do so, or mechanical issues or other logistical or operational considerations are present, as determined by a Supervisor, members shall make every effort to activate their BWCS prior to making contact with members of the public, or as soon as reasonably possible under the circumstances in any of the following types of incidents. a. Law enforcement and investigative activities including, but not limited to, dispatched calls for service (upon arrival on scene), response to calls for back-up, self -initiated enforcement stops (including but not limited to traffic and pedestrian violations, stranded motorist assistance, and crime interdiction stops), consensual encounters, field interview, investigative detentions, and arrests; b. probation and parole searches; c. service of search and arrest warrants, Copyright Lexipol, LLC 2020/09/22, All Rights Reserved. Body Worn Camera Systems - 410 Published with permission by Pleasanton Police Department