Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Annual Report Debate
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Mike Penning
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Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Annual Report
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The Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice (Mike Penning)
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is today laying a copy of the 2014-15 annual report of the surveillance camera commissioner before the House, as required by section 35 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. The report has also been published on the commissioner’s website.
The surveillance camera commissioner is an independent role appointed under section 34 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 to encourage compliance with the surveillance camera code of practice, review the operation of the code, and provide advice about the code—including changes to it or breaches of it.
The current commissioner is Tony Porter, whose three-year term of appointment commenced on 10 March 2014.
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