Dear Mr Jones

Please find attached the Council’s current Code Of Practice in relation to
CCTV.

Yours sincerely

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Finance – Digital and Improvement

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

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Dear Mr Jones

We write in response to your request for an internal review and further
question submitted following our response to you 6 February 2024.

That original enquiry 18 January 2024 asked:

‘Online I can find individually a few different wirral council codes of
practice from different times relating to cctv but there is no way to tell
if such codes are current and complete.

Relating to any cctv, surveillance camera and all other camera and camera
systems of any kind please provide a full and complete list of all current
codes of practice that wholly or in part affect them, and provide copies.’

The Council’s current Code Of Practice in relation to CCTV was provided 
to you  in response on 6 February 2024

You have further asked 6 February 2024

‘Please confirm that is the most recent policy since it is dated 1st march
2014.  Please also provide all the other policies it refers to in 1.3, and
confirm the full list of all current policies as I originally requested
and if there are any more than listed in 1.3 please provide them as well. 
There is also another policy referred to in 1.2, please provide that also’

Wirral Council can confirm The Code Of Practice 2014 version provided in
your response is the most current version.

The Council do not have any of the additional documents mentioned in the
2014 Code Of Practice and you have been provided with everything held.

However to assist and advise you with your questions we can further
confirm this version is under review by the Council.

This concludes the internal review.  Your next step would be to complain
to the Information Commissioner‘s Office if you remain dissatisfied.

The information Commissioner details can be found at this link
[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely

Tracy O'Hare

Information Management Officer

Wirral Council

PO Box 290

Brighton Street

Wallasey

CH27 9FQ

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Dear Mr Jones

We write in response to your request for an internal review of the
Council’s handling of your FOI request and apologise for the delay in
replying. In your email of 7 March 2024, you stated that the response was
incomplete and posed the following 4 questions :

The 2014 code of practice you provided a copy of states it is concerned
with general principles and that there are more specific codes published
by the council for particular circumstances including:-

1 If the cameras are used to carry out surveillance of persons in a manner
calculated to ensure that they are unaware it is taking place then the
operators of the cameras will be subject to the policy and procedure
published by the Council on covert surveillance under the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).

2 the monitoring and enforcement of traffic and parking regulations

3 the system jointly used by Merseyside Police to monitor behaviour by the
public in public places

4 systems installed in vehicles to monitor and record anti-social
behaviour

We have now reviewed the original response and can advise as follows in
respect of your 4 questions set out above.

1.            The Council’s Policy on the use of directed surveillance
under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 is attached.

2.            The Council’s Code of Practice for the use of CCTV for
traffic enforcement is attached.

3.            The joint operation of the public realm CCTV cameras by
Merseyside Police is dealt with in the new draft Code of Practice, which
is not yet published.

4.            The Council does not currently use covert cameras secured in
vehicles to monitor and record anti-social behaviour.

As we have now addressed the 4 points that formed your internal review
request, we consider this to be closed. If you are dissatisfied, you
should refer to the Information Commissioner at [1]www.ico.org.uk

Yours sincerely

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Finance – Digital and Improvement

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

Email: [2][Wirral Borough Council request email]

Visit our website: [3]www.wirral.gov.uk

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