Hi, I’m Philip Jones and I have been supporting Tony Porter, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, in delivering compliance with the surveillance camera code of practice for well over a year. I lead the voluntary adopters strand of the national surveillance …
I have frequently said that technology advances at the speed of light – 0 to 60 in a flash! Well it seems like regulation is doing the same! We are now less than 12 months from the introduction of the General …
After a year of hard work I’m delighted to be able to launch a national surveillance camera strategy for England and Wales, to help keep people safe in public places and respect their right to privacy. It’s a strategy that …
When CCTV became widespread across the towns and cities of the UK in the 1980s and 1990s a CCTV camera was just a CCTV camera. It was a camera set up to record images, those images were recorded on a …
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 …
Hello all – I am Alex Carmichael and I'm the Commissioner’s thematic lead on the standards and certification strand of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy. I’ve commandeered Tony’s blog to tell you a bit about myself and what we’re doing …