More body cameras becoming available to law enforcement.

• Author: Insinna, Valerie
• Position: SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES

* The shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked nationwide concerns about the accountability of law enforcement. Body cameras have been suggested by the White House as a way to increase transparency, and demand for the technology has surged.

One product that soon could be making its way to the United States is the B-Cam SRU, a body camera developed last year by United Kingdom-based BCam Ltd., said CEO James Bolton.

A trial was conducted with the Atlanta police last year, he said. "We are in talks with a third party company in the U.S. at the moment who are going to hopefully sell this for us."

The B-Cam sits on the chest of the officer until it is ready for use. Recording begins with the push of a button. The device is waterproof and ruggedized to withstand drops of more than two meters, Bolton said.

It can record high-defmition video, audio and still images with its five-megapixel camera. Its battery lasts about six hours and can easily be swapped out. It also has infrared sensors that allow the user to capture video in the dark at distances of up to five meters, he said.

In order to ensure that an officer could not tamper with the data, a 32-gigabyte flash drive is built into the B-Cam.

"The only way to get that out is to smash the camera open, which will then break it," Bolton said. "A lot of other devices on the market have SD cards, which are removable, and that sort of evidence can be lost very easily."

Similarly, once data is downloaded...