Police Vetting Toolkit
About this toolkit
Who runs it, why it was built and how it fits into the wider work of the CCTV User Group.
The CCTV User Group
The CCTV User Group is the voice of UK public space surveillance: a membership organisation for CCTV managers, operators and community safety professionals across local authorities, police and the private sector, established in 1997. Its members run the public space CCTV control rooms that this toolkit is built for.
Why the CCTV User Group built this toolkit
Police forces have been writing to council CCTV services requiring their operators to hold a higher level of police vetting, usually NPPV Level 2 Full, and members were finding these demands hard to test: different police forces gave different reasons, and it was not always clear which parts of a demand were evidenced and which were not. The CCTV User Group wrote the Airwave Vetting Protocol to set out a consistent way to test a demand against the national police vetting guidance, and built this toolkit so any council or contractor, member or not, could apply that Protocol to their own situation without needing to be an expert in it first.
What the toolkit is not
The Airwave Vetting Protocol is not a legal or regulatory document, and using this toolkit is not legal advice. It sets out the questions the Protocol says to ask and the evidence to gather; it does not decide the vetting level that applies to your service, and it is not a substitute for your own legal advice or your own risk assessment. Every letter and summary the toolkit produces states which version of the Protocol it was built from, so an answer can always be traced back to the guidance behind it.
Find out more
The CCTV User Group's own site covers membership, events and the wider organisation: cctvusergroup.com. Questions about this toolkit specifically: email vetting-support@cctvusergroup.com.