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More TV documentaries

by Mark Rowe

A sign, arguably, of how private security is coming of age is that it’s on the TV more.

Most recently in our May 2015 print issue we featured the BBC1 one-off documentary, Call Security. Channel 4 and 5 have been running ‘Caught on Camera’ series featuring public space CCTV. Channel 5’s run another short series on Wednesday evenings. Stafford Borough Council was among the CCTV users showing their systems in a good light, catching criminals or otherwise helping authority. The council’s CCTV operation is based in the county town’s Civic Centre and consists of Barbara Ashton and Marc Wood; contractor Enigma reports it’s recruiting further operatives. The documentary producers spent many hours reviewing footage and filming on the streets by day and at weekend nights as well as speaking at length with Barbara … who was in front of the cameras for once rather than behind them. She said: “The film crew was keen to see footage of the day-to-day operations from the CCTV control room. I showed them how we responded to calls from businesses and the police to a range of issues where they needed the help of CCTV in successfully catching offenders. It is important we get good footage of the incidents so it can be used in prosecutions if required – and this is something that the film crew were keen to capture.”

For details of each documentary in the series visit – http://www.channel5.com/shows/caught-on-camera.

Real-life docs about police still head the field – the five-part The Met: Policing London is on BBC1 on Monday nights last month. You could see policing of the Notting Hill carnival, and much trawling of CCTV by detectives. Visit http://www.met.police.uk/documentary/.

And meanwhile in a Channel 4 series about a temp agency you could see Bradford City FC’s recruitment of match-day stewards.

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