Virtually any Closed Circuit Television System that is used to record images of individuals must comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, Failure to do so may result in the personal liability of the system owner with a fine of up to £5,000.00 if pursued through the county court.

2 ) Statutory Information Signs must be mounted adjacent to the entry of a closed circuit television surveillance area, in the case of area’s of external coverage the signs should be fitted to the perimiter or approaches.                                                            

3 ) Recording equipment and media should be held in a secure area or in a purpose made secure storage cabinets and accessible only to the designated operator responsible for the operation of the system.

4 ) Non hard drive recordings media such as magnetic tapes, CD’s, video prints, etc must carry a unique serial number that links with a recording archive log.

5 ) The medium on which the recorded images are captured should be cleaned so that images are not recorded on top of images recorded previouly, at the end of a recordings useful life is is good pratice to distroy it either by certifide mechanical destruction or magnetic erasure/degaussing.

6 ) All recordings must be held in a secure manner accessible only to the individual and organisations named in a site -specific code of practice, if cameras are capable of viewing areas where an individual may have a reasonable right to privacy such as within his/her home some form of physical masking or electronic privacy zoning should be installed.

7 ) Individuals have the right to apply for a copy of a recording that features them.