Potel cameras: the police equipped since July 1, how do they work?

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has announced the generalization of the pip cameras for the police from July 1, 2021.This technology, which takes the form of a small camera fixed on the chest, must make it possible to fight against facies controls.

Last September, when the measure was announced, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin had declared that "the problem of the chip cameras is that today they have a limited charge.A patrol lasts eight hours, a charge between two and four hours, so you understand that they cannot start from the start.For the moment the instruction is to start the camera when you are in intervention ".

Will of Emmanuel Macron

The generalization of the pip cameras comes from the highest peak of the State.On July 14, 2020, Emmanuel Macron had announced his desire to extend this device to "retrace the truth of the facts which make it possible to protect, to restore () confidence".

The government has remained vague on the obligation or not to start the camera during each intervention, Gérald Darmanin saying that he wants to "trust the police and the gendarmes".

Better

The cameras produced by Motorola seem to bring a real asset on the technical level.

One of the defects particularly highlighted by the police in the previous model was autonomy.These new cameras can operate twelve hours in a row against "one to two hours" for the Hikvision models, according to the Sicop spokesperson.Their weight of 130 grams and their attachment system are also optimized.

Depending on the product sheet, the video can be recorded and stored (on a 64 GB space) in HD format.The camera can also broadcast images in real time, for example to a command post, in a much more modest definition (640x360 pixels), provided you are connected to a Wi-Fi network.A non-negligible criterion, this use being explicitly provided for by law overall security.

"The images captured and recorded by means of individual cameras can be transmitted in real time to the command post of the service concerned and to the personnel involved in the conduct and execution of the intervention" specifies the text.