The rapid deployment of headcams or body worn cameras by the UK Police means systems are needed to protect, manage and preserve the integrity of captured video.

POLSAFE is designed to handle all types of police video and still images. It enables police officers to catalogue and store video securely and when needed carry out search and playback operations to support prosecutions and investigations.

Across the UK, police forces are deploying large numbers of headcams to support their day-to-day operations. POLSAFE-Master works with the Cylon unit as well as many of the others units being deployed. This is part of the POLSAFE suite of programs that fully manages police audio/visual assets, ( see www.polsafe.co.uk for details).

All POLSAFE products, designed and distributed by Media Perception – police audio/visual specialists - and developed by Cambridge Imaging Systems - an international leader in image archive management, are fully compatible. This means that the police can start with POLSAFE-Master and migrate, at any time, to POLSAFE-Enterprise, a fully networked police-specific audio-visual management system, taking their audio/visual assets with them at every stage.

Alex Kay of West Yorkshire Police said:

“Body worn cameras are now being deployed across the entire West Yorkshire Police, with POLSAFE-Master providing admissible master copies of evidential video.”

Mike Kavanagh of Media Perception said:

“It is a great step forward that POLSAFE is now used by all divisions of the West Yorkshire Police, and particularly that the masters it produces are legally admissible.”