Thank you for your kind invitation to this key event which addresses one of the most critical aspects of policing surveillance technology. I’m Fraser Sampson and I’m the – no longer quite so new – Surveillance Camera Commissioner having replaced Tony Porter in March. I’m also the Biometrics Commissioner having also replaced Paul Wiles in March. The government is planning to simplify the arrangements for oversight and regulation in this area and so to that extent at least I am the walking embodiment of simplification – 2 commissioners in one pair of shoes. When considering the sprawling issues …
