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Good evening. From next month the Metropolitan Police will begin the

largest ever trial of body cameras. After the inquest into the fatal

shooting of Mark Duggan by police in Tottenham, the Met announced

firearms officers would use the cameras. Now the pilot has been

expanded to include 500 offhcers in nine boroughs. Our Home Aff`irs

Correspondent, Guy Smith, h`s been to California where a simil`r scheme

has seen a big fall in complaints from the public. Rialto, just

outside Los Angeles. A sleepy city where you'd think not much happens.

But you'd be surprised. This is all being recorded by officers wearing

video cameras. You can see `nd hear what's happening. Here in Southern

California, they carried out an experiment. All officers in the

Rialto Police Department were equipped with these small c`meras.

They were told to systematically record every interaction thdy had

with the public over a year. The study looked at whether offhcers'

behaviour changed when they became aware they were being observed. We

had a drop in use of force incidences by about 60% and a

decrease in officer complains of about 88%. That's huge. It's quite

bit more than we anticipated. And the chief of police is also happy

that force isn't used too often here in Rialto. Just showing thehr

weapons is usually enough. Dvery uniformed officer in Rialto is

assigned one of these right now This is actually a camera. Ht's

pretty small, very lightweight. It has the lens, it actually h`s the

storage system in it and it also has a small microphone and a sm`ll

speaker system and it to thd officers know that they are

recording. It has changed mx behaviour? It makes you mord aware

of what I'm doing and that someone is watching. Do you have a licence

on you real quick? Where do you work? OK. The tinted windows is also

illegal. Really? Yeah. But today is your lucky day. I'm just gohng to

give you a warning. Corporal Gary Cunningham has been a cop a long

time. My 25 years. Yes, I fought with people and a lot of sttff and

now with this, if you're usdd to having it on you, then you're going

to make sure you do everythhng by the book. It's just like having a

camera, an eyewitness. Yet, not everyone is so convinced. Police can

use their authority to pull over cars, to enter homes. And when they

are filming at the same timd, filming people in vulnerabld

situations, that raises real concerns if that video is

unregulated. This video is from the officer's point of view. It clearly

provides evidence that could later be used in court. It's something

London will be testing next month. 500 bobbies on the beat will be

using them in nine boroughs. Yet another high`tech tool in the fight

against crime. I think that specifically for London, yot're

looking at the increase in policing legitimacy.

London's NHS should cash in on unused buildings and tax fatty foods

and fizzy drinks if it wants to improve the capital's health. Those

are the early findings of strgeon Lord Darzi, who heads the M`yor s

London Health Commission. Otr Political Correspondent Karl Mercer

has more. For years, Ara Darzi has been at the centre of the c`pital's

health service. First as a surgeon. Then as a health minister in

previous Labour governments. Now he's at the centre of the M`yor s

plans, tasked with finding new ways of getting the health message across

to Londoners. A real pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for having the

courage to come all this wax. Which will explain this meeting this

morning with Camilla Batmangelligh from the charity, the Kids Company.

A walk, if you like, into the lion's den. What I've ended up havhng to do

is absolutely create a parallel health service here. Lord D`rzi was

here to share his plans. Ond of them for the NHS to make more of

buildings like this. The National Temperance Hospital shut its doors

to patients back in 1990. The NHS sold it 16 years later. But it

remains empty. Recently sold on again to the Deptartment of

Transport. There is a huge `mount of estate which I wasn't aware of that

is not used or disused. And in actual fact is also costing the

taxpayer somewhere around 50 or 60 million, so a better use of the

estate is one of the import`nt outputs of this commission. They can

just give me a couple of million of it and I'll throw my turban up in

the air. We have to move from one of our buildings because we ard just

sitting in it before it's gdtting demolished. If someone from the NHS

gave us a building, it would be amazing. Hello. An ABC digital

special report. A big announcement coming from the FDA regarding the

safety of trans`fats and partially hydrogenated oils. There's `nother

idea Lord Darzi says should be considered and that's cutting down

on harmful fats as they've done in America. Even bringing in charges.

My instinct is we need to look at every intervention including

taxation in really tackling this big, big problem, but that's not in

my gift to announce. I'm advising the Mayor on what he should be

doing. At the moment, London's health commission is taking its

first steps. Its final report is due later this year. Just beford the

weather, a quick reminder tonight's Late Kick`Off has a round up of all

the Football League action. That's at 11.25pm here on BBC One. That's

about it from me. Let's now take a check on the weather with Wdndy

Good evening. The warmest d`y of the year yesterday, nearly 21 Cdlsius.

And even warmer day this wedk, perhaps. Some other funny things

been going on in the air. S`haran dust. If you washed your car at the

weekend, it was a waste of time A little but of light rain coling into

the atmosphere, and quite hhgh pollution today and for the next two

days. Very high, in fact, across London. Just something to bdar in

mind. We could also see one or two showers. Mainly affecting areas west

of London. A rumble of thunder, I suppose. Very mild, 7`10dC. A bit of

fog showing up on the map as well which will develop into patches and

could be quite dense through rush hour tomorrow so go cautiously. It

might take bit of time to shift as well but through the afternoon, I

expect there will be some chinks of blue sky, some sunshine getting

through with light wind, and temperatures getting up into the

high teens once again. On the outlook, another day on Wednesday.

Some rain will clear the Some rain will clear the atmosphere

on Thursday. More information on all of that. Hello, talk of the

day-to-day has been the Saharan dust. If you have no idea what I'm

talking about, here is an explanation for you. Essentially, in

the last 24-hour is, there has been wind from the Saharan desert, you

can get an idea of where it has been coming from, by the motion of the

cloud on a satellite picture. Low pressure. The wind in the atmosphere

picking up some of the dust from the Sahara desert, shunted across

western parts of Europe, and all of it on Sunday night into Monday felt

the ground for the some us were waiting to find some grubby cars,

but that's the closest to desert whether we're going to get, apart

from the dust. We've also had other pollutants in the atmosphere. In

London and Manchester, pollution is high. You can get our environmental

summary online. The skies have been washed out by the rain across

western parts of the UK this evening. Heavy rain across parts of

Wales, thunderstorms, and by the early hours of Tuesday morning,

heavy rain transferring to parts of Northern Ireland, northern