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Skanska<\/a> Highways workers are to be issued with body cameras\u00a0to protect them from aggressive motorists\u00a0in Cambridgeshire<\/h2>\n

Skanska maintains roads for Cambridgeshire County Council<\/a> and is preparing to hand out the body cameras to staff shortly.<\/p>\n

According to the Cambs Times<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the initiative will begin in Cambridgeshire before being rolled out across the nation.<\/p>\n

In comments to the BBC, <\/em>a spokesman said the move was in response to “several instances where physical violence has taken place”.<\/p>\n

Skanska’s business director, John Birkenhead, said: “On a regular basis members of our workforce are verbally abused by members of the public and that’s an industry-wide recognised problem.<\/p>\n

“We have had incidents in Cambridgeshire which have made us decide to provide body-worn cameras to our employees.<\/p>\n

“It seems to be an indictment on the society that we live in at the moment that everyone is in a rush.”<\/p>\n

Birkenhead told a committee the body cameras would be delivered in the next week and staff would be encouraged to wear them.<\/p>\n

CCTV signs will be put out to inform the public there are cameras in the area.<\/p>\n

Birkenhead said confrontation can be caused by something “as simple as people being held up by traffic lights”.<\/p>\n

He stated how items are thrown at workers out of the windows of vehicles as they pass by.<\/p>\n

“The closures are only there for health and safety reasons to protect our workforce and members of the public,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Members of the public can get a little irate and sometimes aggressive.”<\/p>\n

Skanska is also contracted by Highways England to deliver the \u00a31.5bn A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon<\/a> improvement scheme.<\/p>\n

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