Leaderware
Criminal countermeasures to CCTV
November 2011, Surveillance
One of my early memories of CCTV is viewing an employee in a gold plant picking up some gold bearing material, looking around very obviously, and then without any attempt at concealment, putting it into ...
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CCTV as an independent arbitrator
October 2011, Surveillance
An article in the Mail and Guardian online by Katherine Child at the end of October raises the issues of journalists and photographers being under fire from demonstrators in the streets, but also being ...
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Sacrificing CCTV real-time viewing
August 2011, Surveillance
The typical video output in most of the systems we use is based around the PAL 25 frames per second (fps) standard set by TV transmission years ago. Digital transmission complicates this slightly, but ...
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Delivering on CCTV cameras
June 2011, Surveillance, Retail (Industry)
Criminals will only be deterred by CCTV if they expect a negative consequence to result from their actions being viewed
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Designing sleep out of control rooms
May 2011, Surveillance
I was reading an article on the Huffington Post (17 March, 2011) website by Dr Breus, a clinical psychologist, in which he was discussing methods to get a better sleep. His key message was as follows:
“I ...
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The rise of specialist surveillance
March 2011, Surveillance
CCTV seems to be going through a re-evaluation in South Africa, with a critical look at what value is being delivered by systems and the people who staff them.
The typical CCTV model to date has centred ...
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Management of the CCTV observation process
February 2011, Surveillance
I am a person who focuses on the human factor in CCTV and I often have to think long and hard about what makes up CCTV effectiveness. Given that I am involved in assisting in selecting people with the ...
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Transport security insights
November 2010, Integrated Solutions, Mining (Industry)
I was fortunate to be invited to attend the Transport Security Expo and Conference (TRANSEC) held at Olympia in London in September. The conference had a number of streams including NATO shipping, Maritime, ...
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The value of an established operator
October 2010, Surveillance
In different communities, information is often held by key people who hold historical and community information that help the community to operate and keep safe. In some commercial organisations, these ...
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