Hi,
We are just implementing and testing night time CCTV monitoring on our premises as we have been through an insurance renewal and it was one of the recommended actions. It wasn’t designed to watch staff, just to put put on and off outside of working hours to monitor a main entrance to our site. As such, we are yet to tell the staff that we were doing this as I believe it is not appropriate and a bit too early as we may not continue with the project. It has limited access etc., and we are in the process of getting signs made to put up to warn people if we do use the system permanently.

However upon checking the system and testing it, we may have caught a staff member out of working hours coming in out of hours and potentially taking some product. Theft is a gross misconduct offence under our disciplinary procedure.

I want to go ahead and deal with the staff member, but is there anything I need to be aware of, from a DPA POV?

Many thanks in advance.
Josephine.
Josephine