It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

"The most serious allegations include:

*Cases in seven forces where officers shared camera footage with colleagues or friends - either in person, via WhatsApp or on social media

*Images of a naked person being shared between officers on email and cameras used to covertly record conversations

*Footage being lost, deleted or not marked as evidence, including video, filmed by Bedfordshire Police, of a vulnerable woman alleging she had been raped by an inspector - the force later blamed an “administrative error”

*Switching off cameras during incidents, for which some officers faced no sanctions - one force said an officer may have been “confused”

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    1 year ago

    No, it didn’t vanish. I think as the comment I was replying to was at the bottom of the page, and I’d tabbed away to grab that wiki link, I mistook the reply to thread text box as the reply to comment text box.

    (I wrote a bloody long essay about tardigrades for a tumblr conversation the other day, spent hours researching it and getting my words out just right and editing in pictures. Just as i was about to post it, I dropped my phone, and while fumbling for it closed the app. Fuck me, I almost cried, haha. I was very lucky i somehow hit post during that fumble, it was a really nice surprise when I checked the app several hours later too!)