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A body camera is a small recorder worn on a vest, a shoulder or a helmet. It films the job from where the wearer is standing, and seals every file it makes. You will also see them called body-worn cameras, BWCs or bodycams.
The parts you can see, and what each one is for.
Records what the wearer is facing, wide enough to catch people off to one side.
After dark the camera keeps recording, in black and white.
Picks up sound as well as picture, which is often what settles an argument.
One press starts recording. On most models the seconds before it are saved too.
How footage leaves. Nothing in the range takes a memory card, so it goes out through the dock or a cable.
A photograph cannot show the battery, the storage sealed inside, or the mount on the back. Those are listed under key features.
From pressing record to a file you can find.
The wearer presses once. Picture, sound and the time go into sealed storage.
The file is stamped with the time, the unit and who signed the camera out.
At the end of duty the camera sits in a bay. Footage moves across and the battery fills.
Once they are off the camera, recordings can be searched, attached to a case and shared through evidence management software.
The reasons that come up most.
When two accounts do not agree, the footage is a third one.
Someone pulls up the recording instead of rebuilding the incident from statements.
Lone and after-hours work goes on the record. Some models let base watch live.
Months later the file is still in one place, and still easy to find.
The cameras it gets confused with.
SeesWhat the wearer faces
Started byThe wearer, one press
Can be editedNo, storage is sealed
Ends upA dock, then your server
Made forBeing worn on duty
SeesWhatever it is strapped to
Started byThe wearer, one press
Can be editedYes, it sits on a card
Ends upA card, then anywhere
Made forSport and hobby
SeesOne fixed view
Started byNobody, it runs on
Can be editedDepends on the recorder
Ends upA recorder on site
Made forWatching one area
SeesThe road ahead
Started byThe ignition
Can be editedUsually yes, on a card
Ends upA card or fleet server
Made forA journey and a collision
Short answers to what people ask first.
No. Offline units record to encrypted internal storage and transfer everything when they are docked, with no connectivity required at any point.
Across the range we supply, published continuous recording runs from 9 to 12 hours on one charge, and 13 hours on the helmet unit, which carries a detachable second cell.
1080p is the working floor. Across the range we supply, recording runs from 1280 x 720 up to 4K.
No. Footage is written to storage the wearer has no write access to, and every file carries the operator ID and a tamper-evident timestamp.
There are more answers on the FAQ page.
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