Best Practice in CCTV & Digital Evidence Handling

Secure and maintain the integrity of vital digital evidence. This course covers the end-to-end best practice for handling CCTV, mobile device data, and other digital formats, ensuring continuity, admissibility, and compliance with forensic standards from capture to court.

• 6 CPD points
• Certificate of Attendance issued

Trainer overview

Jill has a 30-year career primarily within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), and brings extensive operational and strategic leadership experience, culminating in leaving as an Inspector.

During Jill’s MPS career, she held roles as a Training Manager for Specialist, Organised & Economic Crime, and a Work-Based Assessor, actively developing new Sergeants and Inspectors.

Why join this course

Digital evidence, especially CCTV, is central to many investigations.

This course improves your ability to locate, secure, review and present digital material effectively.

Why this topic is important

Poor handling of digital evidence leads to lost opportunities and undermines case integrity. Knowing how to manage digital sources protects evidential value and supports successful outcomes.

How it helps investigations

You’ll learn how to identify digital sources, request material legally, assess its relevance and prepare it for use in safeguarding, regulatory or criminal cases.

Target audience

Investigators, police officers, regulatory teams, safeguarding staff and anyone who handles CCTV or digital evidence.

Learning outcomes:

Request, recover and export CCTV lawfully and efficiently.

Maintain continuity, hashes and audit trails.

Deal with formats, time drift and poor quality footage.

Package and present footage for disclosure and court.