Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what obligations police forces have to collate CCTV evidence when a person reports allegations of (a) harassment or (b) assault to the police.

There are no set requirements from Government on the collection of CCTV evidence during investigations. The police are operationally independent, and we would expect them to investigate all allegations of crime thoroughly and proportionately.

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 provides the police with core powers of entry and search to arrest someone and/or seize items of evidential value in the investigation of a criminal offence.