They have been championing the concept of sousveilance (the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity) and within the Criminology fraternity.

The WA Police have recently said on public radio (6PR’s Drive program with Howard Sattler — worse luck — he is the WA equivalent of Alan Jones) that they are not upset with people being arrested, or questioned in public, filming the police activities. “It is just something we have to accept” was the quote, I believe.

Different police jurisdictions have different policies on this. The Met, for instance has just charged a woman (under the terrorism laws) when she started to use a mobile-phone camera to film the police doing a stop-&-search of her boyfriend “for illicit drugs”.

The term term equiveilance is probably closer to what you are describing.