FROM: Local copper

Date: 10 Nov 23 14:12

"Dear Mr Hart,

Thank you for your emails.

In regards to your CCTV footage downloads. Should you believe that there is footage that has evidence of an offence then please let me know and if it is viable for an officer or a member of the forensic imagery team to attend we will.

I will also ask the team if it is viable for you to transfer the footage directly to a disc/USB storage so that it is not lost, due to the short time frame that your device will store footage. And how/if this would impact on the footage being used in the evidential chain.

I can send you an AXON link for footage however as stated in previous emails it should be downloaded without any form of editing or AI enhancement, and then after we have viewed the footage and deemed that it is needed for a policing purpose we can collect it from yourselves."

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And now my reply to this message:

'"Although I appreciate you are attempting to follow instructions given to you, at the same time I find much of this deeply concerning because what you are asking is in direct opposition to fundamental human rights which you as a serving officer are duty bound to protect.

The rule of law requires everyone within a state is subject to the same standards.

As these new requirements are not yet in statute, I find it troubling how I am being proactively held to an unreasonably higher evidential standard which does not yet exist.

I must therefore express in the strongest possible terms my opposition to these newly instituted evidential practices which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions on both my ability to provide evidence and your ability to exhibit it."