AI and Body-Worn Cameras
Body-worn video is now standard issue across UK forces, and artificial intelligence is increasingly layered on top of it: automated transcription, redaction of faces and voices before disclosure, and in some proposals real-time analysis. The efficiency case is significant. So are the questions about accuracy, activation policy and what happens to footage.
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