Weighing up the evidence

By Pauline Norstrom 2004-08-20T00:00:00

With a VCR tape, detectives can physically touch the original as this is the medium directly recorded to. With digital, images have to be taken off the hard drive where the original evidence is stored, and copied to removable media.

Now that we are into installations of ‘fourth generation’ digital CCTV, Pauline Norstrom, a member of the BSIA Digital Recording Systems Working Group, looks at the ability of images to be admitted as evidence in prosecutions

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