 Good morning everyone, happy new year. So I just got a few comments to make and then happy to take any questions from you, but also Superintendent Tran and Staff Sergeant Anderson can answer any specific questions. They've been leading most of this project over the last number of months and hopefully they can answer some of your questions. So as police officers, every day we depend on the trust and support of the people we serve. It's a founding principle of modern policing that remains as true today as when the Vancouver Police Department was formed some 138 years ago. And while we already enjoy a significant level of support from the people we serve, we must never take that for granted. We must also work not only to maintain the trust we've earned over many years, but to support the officers who dedicate themselves to one of the most challenging and without a doubt, most highly scrutinized professions around. And that's why I'm here today to announce the launch of the Vancouver Police Department's Body Worn Camera Pilot Project. We've listened to the public and agree that this will be a step forward that will strengthen public trust and confidence and support the officers as they work hard to keep our streets safe. Starting today for the next six months, approximately 85 frontline officers working in our traffic section, patrol officers working the downtown core and East Vancouver will begin deploying with chest mounted cameras that will record their actions well on duty and interacting with the public. Their feedback and experiences during this six month trial will help guide us through the development and implementation of a broader Body Worn Camera Program where we eventually expect to see all frontline VPD officers deploy with this technology. This pilot project was approved in November of 2022 and has been a long time coming. Body Worn Cameras are something that we at the Vancouver Police Department have been advocating for for years. Chief Palmer, back in July of 2021, spoke and supported Body Worn Cameras to the special committee on reforming the Police Act. Until now, the significant costs associated with purchasing cameras and storing data have made the technology cost prohibitive. But thanks to the funding from the Vancouver City Council and with approval from the Vancouver Police Board, we've been able to launch this pilot after extensive consultation with various community groups and stakeholders including BC's Privacy Commissioner, which involved the Comprehensive Privacy Audit Report, Health Authorities, Independent Investigations Office, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, Vancouver Police Union, Indigenous, N2SLGBTQ Plus Groups, Business Improvement Associations and Service Providers in the Downtown East Side, amongst others. We know this is a big change and we appreciate that some people in our community may feel uneasy about being recorded. We understand, too, that some may have questions about how the pilot program is going to work. We created a web page at vpd.ca that goes in the more detail about the deployment and while we encourage everyone who has questions to take a look, just want to take a moment to talk to you about some of the key points here today. The cameras will be mounted on the front of an officer's uniform in a way that provides an unobstructed camera angle and a visible to the public. Cameras will be activated for calls when there's a reasonable belief that there will be use of force or where violent or aggressive behavior is anticipated. Any officer who activates a body worn camera will inform a person that they're being recorded as soon as possible, unless doing so jeopardizes the safety of an officer or a member of the public. And officers are not required to have their cameras continuously turned on if they're not responding to a specific incident or interacting with a member of the public. For example, when you're doing office work or having a private conversation with a co-worker or went on patrol but not responding to a specific call. There may be times when officers use discretion to not activate a camera, such as in a place of worship, in a hospital, in a law office, in a private home, or they may encounter or when they encounter young children, victims of crime or other sensitive situations. This approach is not something we've taken lightly. We've given this careful consideration and conducted extensive work in our communities for months leading up to today. Through that work, we've reached a balance that protects people's rights and their privacy, while also enhancing public trust in our work and giving our officers a new tool that will help them serve their communities better. This tool will also protect officers from false or vexatious complaints. We hire excellent men and women to do a very challenging job. However, this tool helps to reassure and strengthen public confidence and trust that it's an important step worth taking. Happy to take any questions they may have. Allie, how was the footage we've stored and how do you make sure that they're safe and sound? It's through the solutions, proprietary solutions through the service provider and they've got encryption that ensures that it's being secured. As you're well aware, body-worn camera has been up and running for over a decade across North America, major cities. So security has been very well-addressed over the years and with other agencies as well. And how can they anticipate potential of a dangerous interaction when it's like, what do you? No, that's a fair question. And I think that comes with experience with our officers, our officers' training. It's gonna be left up in some cases through the discretion of the officers. But also when they anticipate that something's going to happen, then they're gonna turn it on. And they can just clarify that 30-second loop, like, is it gonna be soundless for the first 30 seconds? That's right. Yeah, so the first, it's a buffer mode that's on it. So if all of a sudden you press it, it will capture 30 seconds proceeding when you press the button, but there will not be audio associated to it. Only at that moment you press it, you'll have both audio and video. Will that be repercussions or provide accountability to be in place or chooses not to turn on a camera? Well, sure. Part of that is gonna be the discretion of the officers, gonna be the judgment of the officers. And as we've talked about before, we're balancing the privacy concerns that come into place. But I mean, that's what the policy and the guidelines is there for, is to help guide our officers, especially in those initial first steps when we roll this out. It's gonna be a learning process. And that's why we have oversight in this province. And that's why we have policies and guidelines that help establish when and when you should not be turning it on. I know you held that haul recently. What would that mean? Could be starting brought forward by people? Maybe I should turn that one over to you because I believe you're a part of that. Yeah, we've done a number of public consultations. The general sort of theme has been privacy issues and of course costs and what you just stated. When can officers turn it on? When can they turn it off? What are repercussions when these things don't happen? So as Deputy Chao indicated, of course we have oversight bodies or Suplice app. So officers will be trained to the standard that we expect them to be. These are guidelines though. And so we're gonna learn a lot of things as we move forward. And that's gonna be implementing the full implementation of the policy if that occurs. So any other questions? So right now the camera is in what we call buffering mode. So as mentioned previously, it's basically recording on a continuous 30 second loop. So every 30 seconds it's re-recording over itself. And this is just to provide some context to why an officer may turn the camera on and start recording. So it's not meant to capture any sort of personal conversations or something like that prior to an incident, but just to sort of explain a little bit of why they reached the conclusion like, okay, I need to turn this on right now. So right now it is in that 30 second buffer mode. Quick double tap. You hear that audio cue? It's starting recording as well as now there's a visual cue as well, the red lights on the front. Because in the end of the day, this isn't meant for secretive recording. Like we want the public to know that we're recording. Part of the guidelines as well is that we're notifying the public and letting them know that they are being recorded. The interaction is being recorded. That's both required by case law, but it's also, it's for their benefit and ours. So everybody knows that this is incidents being recorded and that we can count on this footage moving forward. So every two minutes, it's also going to give an audio reminder. So it's going to be pretty loud, be just to remind the members of the public, as well as the officer that is recording. And it's also going to vibrate for me. So if I want to turn it off, it's unlike the activation with the two presses of the button, it's just a press and hold for three seconds. That long tone signifies it's now back into the buffering mode and the red lights have gone away, so. It is a pilot project. So it's going to run the course of six months, but it's going to be consistent, continue evaluation along the way. So we've got four dedicated officers that have been working on this for the last year or so. And so throughout this next six month period, they're going to be looking at any changes that emerges or anything that we need to deal with. So there will be, but in terms of a public feedback, no, there won't be until after the six month period and we've had time to assess and evaluate. Just wanted to confirm on my last question about the accountability and to turn that several in. Is there anything actually in place right now with that camera? Does it get turned on and maybe it shouldn't been? Is there repercussions in place yet or is not yet? No, I mean, it really is a role of, and this is what the whole pilot project is intended to assess. So as you know, there's going to be some judgment and discretion that's going to be used by officers. But in the policy itself, there are areas and situations where you shall activate your cameras and there's others where you don't, where it's left to the officer's discretion. So that's what I suggest you do is go to vpd.ca and it lists it all out there. Just so if anybody has any questions on that. I'm just thinking, I don't think they're being used on the deaf-tongued side right now. No. Just saying to you, I don't want to be filmed. You've had film gate at that point, can it out the certain turn off the camera or ask to roll? Yeah, no, they can turn it off on that depending on the situation. If it's evidence gathering, serious incident that took place and we've got to capture it, then they'll be leaving it on. I can just, okay, go ahead. Didn't pour out the bonus, the victim versus. Yeah. So just to add to when the member is able to turn the camera off. So in a situation where someone comes to the officer and says, actually, I don't want to give you a statement right now because I'm not comfortable being on camera. If they're a victim or a witness, then it's in our guidelines that the member can shut the camera off in order to facilitate that statement or compliance with that victim or witness. However, if the person is a subject that's under investigation, it's we're not going to shut it off if they ask us to. Yeah.