"But a couple of them have caught fire, which isn't ideal."

That is all.

...right arm in first please, I get confused otherwise.

It's down to all these hot-headed coppers they take on these days.

So where is your cop-cam record of what happened when this innocent passer-by dropped dead a few minutes after you 'gently nudged' him?

Oops, sorry your honour, my camera mysteriously went on fire.

So what about the video taken by the witness?

Yes your honour, we nicked him straight away for the crime of filming the police, and destroyed the illegal video.

Whilst investigating anti government comments left on a website if suspect happens to receive a good kicking, then the cameras spontaneously leek petrol and burst into flames!

Someone's going to get fired for this?

I'll get mine

a case of assault and battery (groan)

Do the camera's have selective "Fallen down the stairs filtering technology" TM (Pat Pending)

shouldnt this be in ROTM? also when are the person location systems going to be issued to all - nothing to fear nothing to hide?

Another example of living in the fear that the technology supplied to civil servants was provided by the lowest bidder.

Wonder how effective them stab proof vests are?

Is this why I saw a copper driving while using a mobile the other day?!

Footage would be subject to availability under the FOI. much like being caught on MOD cameras when stood outside their establishments.. Mark Thomas i'm looking at you.. there's a new sport right there..

Anybody else thinking the police setup in Halting State is the next step from this? Testemony submitted by webcam and email pleas on plaintiff's behalf..

The helmets obviously couldn't take such a substantial increase in processing power with the video units installed.

Playmobil... or it didn't happen

I hope for the sake of a certain small segment of the perviverse that the head-cam technology doesn't turn out to be a slightly modded derivative of the butt-cam.

Flames, of course :-)

Sounds like the convenient first step for the "sorry we don't have any picture", after the Tube CCTV were not working, we lost the tape, there is no CCTV in the City and we were not there....

And we should seriously trust those guys to protect us... They lost my confidence a long time ago!

Yes it's probably a few rotten apples but if you hide them at the bottom of the basket after a while the whole thing just stinks!

Put him in a dry cell!

Am I the only one old enough to remember using a milk tetra pak to keep a ZX80 cool enough?

.....Smokey bacon anyone?

Mines the one with the pack of Walkers in the pocket

Thats a policeman with his helmet on fire and not your gay friend robert in that speical way..

It is still an offence to knock his hat off, so you may as well point and laugh.

*\. BB is watching you, if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear, but plenty to laugh at.

"Am I the only one old enough to remember using a milk tetra pak to keep a ZX80 cool enough?"

I went down the frozen pastry route....

...an opportunity for a Michael Jackson joke but I'll stick with The Ruts' "Babylon's Burning" for now.

If they had given iPods to the Christian element of the Old Bill instead of cameras, would they be the Plod Pod God Squad?

My favourite was the copper pulled into the hard shoulder to answer a mobile, aren't hard shoulders for emergency use ?.

Also REALLY funny is the convertibles in the rain sticking there hazards on and slamming into the hard should to put there roofs up.

And while i'm having a moan, all the fooking idiots driving with one hand and flicking fag ash out of the window, knobs, use your ash tray and pollute your own fricking car.

Of course, my nokia E71 has Push to talk and googles GPS tracking system which means if I want to I can set it so people can look and see where I am at any given time. And it has a camera which can be set to stream video to the net or net based storage.

Rather than blowing £50 millionon new radios, why not buy 1000 off-the-shelf Nokia E71s? I'm pretty sure most networks would throw them in for free if the met signed a 12 month contract! They'de probably give each copper 2 in case one gets broken.

Then they'de have GPS tracking and live video feeds sent direct to HQ.

Can I have my consultancy fee now please.

Cor they could stick em in a holder in wooden tops helmets, knock a coppers hat off and get a free E71

I can only assume it's unarguable only because no one has tried yet - is it not the case that the officer can start/stop the recording at any point, and the the video is stored un-checksumed in the clear on a memory stick, with a forgeable date/time stamp ?

Is it just me, or do the shoulder-mounted camera sseem to be pointing the wrong way for most of the time? The film I've seen from the vest cams seems to end up facing about five feet to the left of whatever or whoever is in front of the occifer involved...

Still, at least this would allow ITV to cut their budget but still produce The Bill - they could do away with the camera crews and sound techs and just use BobbyCam instead!