The CCTV consultancy Global MSC Security has awarded Cumbria Constabulary its Gordon McLanaghan Innovation Award. The presentation was by Managing Director of Global MSC, Derek Maltby to Steven Ferguson of Cumbria, who received a Bristol Blue Glass engraved ships decanter and a £1,000 cheque on behalf of the force.
The Gordon McLanaghan award is given annually, in memory of the late Bristol City Council CCTV and Emergency Control Room Manager. It recognises those who have gone above and beyond, to achieve a technical security solution. Previous winners include Community Safety Glasgow; Jim Guiton of Dacorum Borough Council; and Gloucester City Council.
The judging panel for the 2017 award was chaired by Professor William Webster of Stirling University, who is also the Director of the Centre for Research into Information Surveillance and Privacy, and among the advisers to the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, on the various strands of his surveillance camera code of practice.
The award was presented at the Global MSC Security charity dinner on Monday, November 13, at The Bristol Hotel, Bristol, in front of an audience of some 98 security people from the public and private sector. Derek Maltby says: “Cumbria Constabulary are deserving winners of the 2017 Gordon McLanaghan Innovation Award and it is a pleasure to recognise its achievement with the highest accolade Global MSC Security can bestow.”
Pictured from left to right: Steven Rothwell (Cumbria Police CCTV Operator), Derek Maltby, (Global MSC Security), Prof William Webster (Stirling), Steven Ferguson (Cumbria Police CCTV Supervisor). Photo by: @JonCraig_Photos.
The Global MSC Security 2017 Conference and Exhibition followed the day after at the same city centre venue.
