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Adversarial: An encounter with a person that becomes confrontational, during which at least one person expresses anger, resentment, or hostility toward the other, or at least one person directs toward the other verbal conduct consisting of arguing, threatening, challenging, swearing, yelling, or shouting. Encounters in which a citizen demands to be recorded or initiates recording on his or her own for the purposes of this policy only may be considered adversarial. 411.04 USE AND DOCUMENTATION Officers may only use department -issued cameras in the performance of official duties for this agency or when otherwise performing authorized law enforcement services as an employee of this Department. All Officers who are issued a BWC must receive training in the use of the BWC by an authorized representative. Only those officers that have been issued a BWC and have received the department -authorized training may operate a BWC. All Ramsey Police Department employees who use the BWC systems shall receive training on these systems and this policy. All officers issued a BWC are required to wear and use their camera while working in any uniformed assignment. This applies to overtime assignments and uniformed off -duty employment in the City of Ramsey. This would not apply to officers or administrators who predominately do office work. Officers should wear their BWC in the manner specified in training. Officers noting a malfunction at any time shall report the malfunction to a supervisor, and a replacement BWC should be used. If no replacement BWC is available, the officer should notify a supervisor as soon as possible. Officers must document their use and non-use of the department -issued cameras as follows: • Whenever an officer makes a recording of evidentiary value or relating to a call for service for which a report is written, the existence of the recording shall be documented in the incident report. • If there is a failure to record an activity that is required to be recorded under this policy, or only captures a part of the activity, the officer must document in the incident report or CAD comments the circumstances and reasons for not recording. The department will maintain the following records and documents relating to BWC use, which are classified as public data through product software, and will include: • The total number of BWCs owned or maintained by the agency; • A daily record of the total number of BWCs actually deployed and used by officers; • The total amount of recorded BWC data collected and maintained; • This policy, together with the Records Retention Schedule. Policy 411 Page 2 of 9