This had to be an innovation, ensuring that the police controls are smooth and burr-free. But the reality is quite different. Cameras-pedestrians who equip the forces of law and order would be in reality for the most unusable, reveals Le Canard enchaîné. In full controversy over the police violence alleged that the government refused to appoint directly, the information is wrong. According to the satirical newspaper, 10 400 devices have been distributed to the police forces, thousands of cameras that are little or not because of numerous problems.
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This new equipment will still cost the trifling sum of € 2.3 million. “Not only are the fasteners do not hold, but the autonomy is ridiculous. We were forced to go with four spare batteries or so, to save the juice, we leave the camera powered off. And it again takes ages, ” says a official of the public safety. The camera-pedestrian was, however, a wish of Christophe Castaner. The minister of the Interior had announced in January 2019 as the armed police of LBD would be, ” to the extent possible, equipped with cameras, and pedestrians “. He had revealed this new measure during a hearing at the Assembly on the proposal of law anti-thugs. He wanted to ” meet the twin requirements of transparency and exemplarity that (they had) to the French “.
The angle of view obstructed
it is clear that in the space of a few months the device does not seem to have been engaged as desired. Worse, when a member of the forces of the order performs a shot of LBD, its movement of the arms to prevent the camera from filming properly the scene. For shooting video is correct, it would be desirable that another officer takes position behind his colleague with another camera at the moment of the action.
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The police have also received the same devices. But, anticipating future problems, they have embedded that 95 models on the 5,000 cameras distributed by the ministry of the Interior. The quality of the product hence it is poor. It is an SME located in Saint-Lambert-la-Potherie (Maine-et-Loire), which had won the tender. She had made a call to a chinese manufacturer that is registered on a black list american. Now, the police officers board with them of the GoPro paid for with their own money.
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