“The delivery and logistics industry is poised for a major acceleration in 2026. Adoption of body-worn cameras will start where it always does – safety and security. Protecting drivers or staff from aggressive behaviour and deterring theft of high-value goods has to remain a priority. But very quickly, body-worn cameras become a better proof-of-delivery mechanism than today’s tick-box or photo-only approaches.”
“The next big step for security in the transport services industry will be integration. In 2026, body-worn cameras will plug into job management and dispatch platforms, creating frictionless evidence of work completed, compliance with protocols, and a clearer record of what happens at the door or on site – without adding admin burden to wearers.”
“Frontline transport workers in the UK are already calling for stronger protections against abuse. Body-worn cameras are one of the most practical ways to improve safety and accountability without creating extra admin for staff.”
“Transport networks are naturally multi-camera environments – stations, platforms, vehicles, depots. In 2026 the step change is joining those dots: body-worn footage working alongside fixed CCTV to reconstruct incidents faster and remove ambiguity about what happened, where and when.”
“In 2026, transport operators will stop judging body-worn cameras purely by whether they deter incidents, and start judging them by how fast they resolve them. The new KPI becomes time-to-resolution: how quickly can we pull the full story of an incident across a busy network, get the right footage to the right people, and close the loop fairly? That mindset shift matters because the transport pain point isn’t capture – it’s speed, accuracy, and confidence when something happens.”
“Transport is a lone-worker, high-friction environment, and that’s why adoption will grow next year. As abuse against frontline staff continues to rise, UK operators will expand BWCs beyond traditional enforcement roles to more customer-facing teams – because visible accountability is one of the few tools that reliably de-escalates behaviour in the moment.”
“In 2026, transport rollouts will get bigger, and smarter. Body-worn cameras won’t sit on the edge of the system anymore; they’ll be tied into the wider video network so incidents are understood and resolved faster.”
“Next year, AI’s real value in security will be speed with accountability. It will help teams pinpoint the right footage across multiple sources in minutes, redact bystanders consistently, and generate draft incident summaries for rapid human review and verification. But for AI to be trusted in this chain, we need auditable decision trails, tamper-proof chain-of-custody, and clear proof that humans stay in charge of high-stakes calls.”
“The biggest change in 2026 won’t be more body-worn cameras on transport staff. It’ll be what organisations do with the footage after they’ve captured it. Once video is quick to find and easy to use, it stops being solely evidence for later, which is still critical, and becomes intelligence that shapes decisions in the moment.”
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