I work for a private company, ISS Facility Services, as a Security Officer in an NHS hospital in the north of England. All Officers have a Guarding and CCTV license. Recently NHS staff habe been wanting ti review CCTV footage sometimes its to identify crime but often its not, do they need a license to view the recorded CCTV? The NHS Trust owns the system but we operate it for them. Guidance on where we stand legally would be great.
Who can view CCTV in NHS hospital?
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To review cctv that isn’t of your own property or home you must have a cctv license, to view but not record is slightly different as it is a recording from a hospital the person must request a copy of footage from the operator (ISS) and satisfy the requirements in law. Alternatively they can ask the police to make a request then you, not them would then find the incident and provide an evidential copy to the police.
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premier
To review cctv that isn’t of your own property or home you must have a cctv license, to view but not record is slightly different as it is a recording from a hospital the person must request a copy of footage from the operator (ISS) and satisfy the requirements in law. Alternatively they can ask the police to make a request then you, not them would then find the incident and provide an evidential copy to the police.
Regards
premier
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But anyways you should have a clear procedure to enforce and explain you (just an operator, seems) how to apply to your line manager and the CCTV responsible one (as said by written request).
Access to any and all the cctv captured in the premises, may it be by nhs staff or not; remember that even police officers unless during an investigation need to allow you to be able to trace back any footage exposed to a third party (cover yourself, cover the cctv legality, cover the personal data protection act, cover the client...)
During your CCTV license training, that kind of a joke of 3 days soaking your ass in a classroom, you may have been given written documents explaining these questions, check them
Access to any and all the cctv captured in the premises, may it be by nhs staff or not; remember that even police officers unless during an investigation need to allow you to be able to trace back any footage exposed to a third party (cover yourself, cover the cctv legality, cover the personal data protection act, cover the client...)
During your CCTV license training, that kind of a joke of 3 days soaking your ass in a classroom, you may have been given written documents explaining these questions, check them