London's firefighters will become the first to wear body-worn cameras following a damning report against the brigade.
"We will be the first service in the country to issue body-worn cameras to our crews, both to protect them but also to ensure public safety and reassurance. Those are immediate changes, and that change has started now," he said.In one testimony featured in the report, an anonymous female firefighter said she told her female friends "not to let male firefighters in the house", as they "go through women's drawers looking for underwear and sex toys".
In addition to issuing firefighters with body-worn cameras, Mr Roe revealed a five-year case review had begun this week, looking back at historic cases to "sense check all of those decisions that got made". "If we still have people in the workforce, regardless of whether they've been through a process or not, who do not meet newly framed standards around gross misconduct, then they will be dismissed," he said.
He added that, unlike in the Metropolitan Police, there were no "significant legal barriers" to dismissing members of staff that have been found to have committed misconduct.
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