The use of drones
Over the Christmas period you may have been looking to the skies for Santa’s sleigh and you may have thought you saw it when in fact what you saw was an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – more commonly known as a …
Tony Porter
Tony Porter was appointed Surveillance Camera Commissioner in March 2014. He has a combination of business and law enforcement expertise. He is an intelligence specialist (most recently within the financial sector) and retired senior police leader. His experience spans community and business engagement, international counter terrorism and serious and organised crime.
Next steps on the national surveillance camera strategy
If you’ve been an avid reader of my blog you’ll know that I’ve spent the best part of a year developing a national surveillance camera strategy for England and Wales. You’ll also know that we’ve been consulting on a draft …
Body worn video
Since I took up post as Surveillance Camera Commissioner nearly 3 years ago technology has moved forward at an incredible pace – particularly when I think about body worn video. When I took up post some police forces were starting to …
Consulting on the draft national surveillance camera strategy
If you read my last blog on the draft National Surveillance Camera Strategy for England and Wales you’ll know that the consultation is underway – it kicked off with a couple of media interviews and you may have seen me …
Consultation on national surveillance camera strategy for England and Wales open
If you have been a regular reader of my blog you will know that I’ve been working on a National Surveillance Camera Strategy for England and Wales. You’ll know that I started work on it back in January, have enlisted …
Police use of automatic number plate recognition
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a fixture on our roads and motorways. The police use it to combat organised crime and counter terrorism – to keep the citizens of the UK safe.
What's on the horizon for surveillance cameras?
As part of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy I’m working on we have a strand looking at horizon scanning which is being lead by colleagues at the Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology.
Technology is changing
Technology changes constantly and quickly – it moves forward at amazing speed, 0 – 60 in the blink of an eye. We’ve seen the use of body worn video spread across virtually all police forces and some are now using …
Partnership working
There’s been quite a lot in the press recently about local authorities turning off their CCTV schemes. Westminster Council is turning off their scheme as they can’t afford to run it and it’s the same in Newbury and Havant. Austerity …
Surveillance cameras under review
Are you certain that your surveillance camera system is working as well as it was when it was first installed? Working as well as it was one, two or three years ago? Working at all? In Principle 10 of the …