[directive] Circumstances When BWC Activation is Generally Required.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in Section 7 or any other provision in this Policy, or by law, an officer equipped with a BWC shall be required to activate the device whenever the officer is responding to a call for service or at the initiation of any other law enforcement or investigative encounter between an officer and a member of the public, to include any of the following circumstances,2 unless there exists an immediate threat to the officer’s life or safety that makes such activation impossible or dangerous; in such situations, the officer must activate the camera at the first reasonable opportunity to do so and it shall remain activated until the encounter has fully concluded and the officer leaves the scene: (a) the officer initiates an investigative detention (e.g., a Delaware v. Prouse traffic stop, a Terry v. Ohio criminal suspicion stop, or a checkpoint or roadblock stop); (b) the officer is responding to a call for service and is at or near the location to which the officer has been dispatched;  Two or more of the below-listed activities are likely to occur during a single encounter or event.  For 2 example, a frisk ordinarily occurs after an officer already has initiated an investigative detention (i.e., a “stop”), and a custodial interrogation typically occurs after the officer has arrested the person being interrogated.  Although these specified activities often will co-occur and overlap, they are presented in this Section to ensure complete coverage of the circumstances when a BWC must be activated.  The specified activity that occurs first during an unfolding encounter will trigger the obligation to activate a BWC.  As explained in Section 5.3, once activated based upon the initiation of any of the listed police activities, the BWC generally must remain in operation until the police-civilian encounter is concluded (i.e., until the officer is no longer interacting with or in the presence of the civilian), and not just while the officer is engaged in the specified activity that required activation.  BODY WORN CAMERA POLICY | January 2022 11 (c) the officer is conducting a motorist aid or community caretaking check; (d) the officer is interviewing a witness in the course of investigating a criminal offense; (e) the officer is conducting a custodial interrogation of a suspect, unless the interrogation is otherwise being recorded in accordance with Rule 3:17 (electronic recordation of station house interrogations); (f) the officer is making an arrest; (g) the officer is conducting a protective frisk for weapons; (h) the officer is conducting any kind of search (consensual or otherwise), including the execution of a search warrant; (i) the officer is engaged in a police response to any type of civil disorder in circumstances where the officer is engaged with or in the presence of civilians and the officer or any other officer on the scene may be required to employ constructive authority or force; (j) the officer uses constructive authority or force, or reasonably believes that constructive authority or force may be used in any encounter or situation not otherwise listed in this subsection based on specific and articulable facts warranting heightened caution that are documented by narration on the recording and/or in any investigation or incident report;3 (k) the officer is transporting an arrestee to a police station, county jail, or other place of confinement, or a hospital or other medical care or mental health facility; or (l) the officer reasonably believes that any other officer on the scene has undertaken or is engaged in any of the foregoing police actions/activities.