The report of the City Solicitor is Enclosed.

To approve the updated Manchester City Council CCTV Code of Practice.

A report submitted by the City Solicitor provided an update on developments in the Council’s use of surveillance cameras. Those developments required that the Council update its Code of Practice in relation to the use of CCTV. A copy of the proposed new Code of Practice was appended to the report.

The current Code of Practice dated back to 2008. It had been reviewed by the Council in 2013. Since then the Government’s Surveillance Camera Code of Practice (the Surveillance Code) had come into force on 12 August 2013; the Information Commissioner had issued a Data Protection Code of Practice for Surveillance Cameras; and the Surveillance Camera Commissioner had issued the National Surveillance Camera Strategy for England and Wales. The Council’s Code of Practice had therefore been subject to a full and thorough review to take all those into account. The new Code of Practice was approved.

Decision

To approve the updated Manchester City Council CCTV Code of Practice.