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Via Vibrant Victoria, the Victoria Police Department is running a blog. The posts are mostly interesting incidents that police have been involved with. The tone is just-the-facts cute, bang-on for improving public relations.

Unfortunately, they don’t identify individual police officers. Still, I think it will have the intended affect of humanizing the VicPD force as a whole. The Canada Day post is particularly amusing.

Written by Jared

July 8th, 2010 at 8:04 am

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  1. Are you shitting me? They were videotaping the crowds?

    For the first time we used powerful 16 megapixel video cameras to keep watch over the Upper Causeway area.

    Standard questions: how long is the footage retained and who has access to it? Can it be FOIPA’d and put online?

    Jack

    8 Jul 10 at 9:24 am

  2. Your questions are answered in a news release:

    • 60 days to 1 year
    • The cameras are available to “only authorized personnel”. The stored footage will be treated as evidence and controlled as such.
    • VicPD ran it by the Acting Privacy Czar

    Jared

    8 Jul 10 at 9:31 am

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