In north London, Barnet Council’s Cabinet Resources Committee has approved plans for a new CCTV system in the borough. A new contract will place CCTV services with OCS Group UK Ltd and will see the control room co-located with Enfield Council. The contract will see the CCTV upgraded including monitoring, recording, reviewing and transmission equipment. Read More
A case study on new CCTV installed by Link CCTV Systems at eight University of London halls of residence buildings. The new systems provide fixed static camera monitoring of all points of entry-exit and security reception areas, with the high resolution images recorded in real time and stored at full frame rate for 31 days Read More
The Metropolitan Police released pictures of the 213 most wanted suspects for the disorder seen across London this August as part of a campaign to catch offenders in the run up to Christmas. With the public’s help in identifying those responsible, to date the Met has made 3269 arrests for a variety of offences and Read More
The City of London Police (COLP) remit is to police the capital’s streets utilising intelligence. With more American banking organisations than New York, and more Japanese banks than in Tokyo, London’s square mile represent a unique environment to secure, with quite exceptional threats to its day-to-day business activities. Combating terrorism In the early 1990s, the Read More
Surrey-based CCTV Training & Logistics has been contracted to deploy their mobile CCTV unit to cover security duties at nightclubs in London. Fire and Lightbox nightclubs at Vauxhall, with a capacity of over 1500, have tasked the mobile CCTV unit to help reduce the likelihood of drugs misuse from clubbers queuing to go into the Read More
After the London Borough of Hammersmith took four custom-designed rapidly deployable CCTV cameras from Vemotion, the CCTV Development Manager for Hammersmith and Fulham, and neighbouring Kensington and Chelsea, Andrew Stocker, called the wireless CCTV firm back for a new project – a CCTV van. The vehicle was trailed for five months before going live in Read More
The Metropolitan Police held their first CCTV award ceremony, at New Scotland Yard in March. They were marking the work done by London borough CCTV control rooms to prevent and detect crime. Over half of London’s CCTV control rooms received awards and these were presented by Commander Simon Letchford, the Met’s ACPO lead on CCTV, Read More
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London is thought to be the largest “town centre” CCTV scheme in the UK. This Hammersmith Town Hall project represents a blending of public and commercial CCTV systems that covers public space. John Baldwin is Managing Director at Chroma Vision Limited, the installers. He said: “Public Read More
A leading manufacturer and installation specialist of Fire & Security Systems, in the UK and Europe, are looking for a Security Systems Service Engineer to join them, as they expand their team. A service-based role to cover areas in Berkshire, namely Slough, Reading and Maidenhead and NO London works As the Service Engineer, you will Read More
Intruder Alarm & CCTV Service Engineer – Winchester & Guildford No London works A leading manufacturer and installation specialist of Fire & Security systems, in the UK and Europe, are looking for a Security Systems Service Engineer to join them, as they expand their team. A service-based role to cover areas from Winchester to Guilford. Read More
