Cbyer security and surveillance cameras
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 …
Body worn video and the national surveillance camera strategy for England and Wales
I was in the gym yesterday, wondering what I could write in this guest blog, when I looked up from the treadmill and saw a news feature about trialling the use of body cameras in classrooms to record students’ bad …
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 …
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 …
Progress on the national surveillance camera strategy
Hey there, it’s Alastair Thomas here. My first guest blog as project manager for development of a new National Surveillance Camera Strategy was posted back in July. So as the evenings draw in, and autumn sees the leaves beginning to …
Managing the National Surveillance Camera Strategy
Hey there, it’s Alastair Thomas here. Once of the Home Office, which I left in December 2015. Tony Porter has hired me to project manage the development of the new National Surveillance Camera Strategy. Tony also invited me to write …
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 …