The Dover Port has numerous, diverse CCTV systems which have grown organically with no strategic direction; we were asked to audit these systems and to make recommendations with particular emphasis on critical systems that would be expected to function well in a very busy passenger terminal.

Trowbridge Town Council operates one of a number of CCTV systems across Wiltshire; the Wiltshire County is to become a unitary authority in April 2009 and the diverse district and town council CCTV systems will need to be accommodated and possibly their control rooms merged. MSC facilitated a 'Strategy Day' to enable these considerations and the recommendations from the National CCTV Strategy to be made.

We also conducted a feasilbilty study to take the existing 5 year old town centre system in Trowbrdge in a suitable strategic direction for the next 5-10 years.

We provide a retained security consultancy service for the provision of specialist advice relating to the three town centre CCTV camera systems and the management and supervision of the maintenance provider.

We have also carried out numerous transmission and CCTV system upgrades in the towns of Banbury, Bicester and Kidlington together with the control room upgrade.

We have been involved with a number of security and CCTV projects on behalf of Bristol City Council, some of these are: -

• Assess requirements for the public safety and traffic monitoring CCTV cameras to be able to control cameras and review images from one joint, central matrix and Graphic User Interface (GUI) control. Evaluate DVR requirements for the regulation of road traffic offences
• Evaluate digital recording system against a performance specification for 200 + cameras
• Specify and Project Manage installation of self-provide fibre optic cabling and microwave transmission for multi storey and surface car parks (77 cameras)
• Design and project manage the installation of a 6 camera CCTV system to be transmitted via microwave to a nearby, established CCTV control room
• Design and project manage the installation of an 11 camera CCTV system to be transmitted via wireless IP solution to the council’s existing CCTV control room
• Conduct security review of a council building and make recommendations to utilise security technology to reduce reliance and cost on manned guarding

We evaluated their existing 12 year old town centre CCTV system and made recommendations to reduce revenue costs and designed an upgraded control room option to migrate the recording system to Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and provide operator control via Graphic User Interfaces (GUI's).

The British Library commissioned MSC to determine the detailed environmental and technological design requirements for their planned, upgraded CCTV control and security centre to take account of ergonomic and 'human factor' design requirements as set out in various British Standards. The objective was to design adequate working conditions with regard to human safety, health and wellbeing whilst taking account of technological and economic efficiency.

We have also conducted legislation training for operators.

We have attended Bridgetown Barbados on behalf of the Government and the BTI on three occasions, to assess potential camera locations and control room options. Most recently we recommended the use and operation of cameras using an innovative transmission medium, COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). We designed CCTV systems for Bridgetown and for five other outlying tourist towns.

We act as a retained specialist security advisor to EMI for all aspects of security. As part of this brief we have designed speed gates, access control and integrated CCTV systems and have compiled the tender specifications to implement these requirements and project managed the installation. We have compiled procedural documentation to ensure lawful compliance of their CCTV systems, etc.

We conducted a feasiliblity study of the existing CCTV systems and produced a strategic 5 year plan to deal with the options and reduce ongoing revenue costs. Part of this investigation dealt with costs associated with the re-location of the CCTV control room which were accepted and we managed the implementation of the new control room to the Aylesbury Police Station with state of the art DVRs, GUIs and rear screen projectors for the display of all images. We have also specified and managed the installation of Automatic Number Plate (ANPR) camera systems with integration into the Thames Valley Police Back Office Facility (BOF).

We evaluated the obsolete 56 camera analogue CCTV system, designed and procured a new IP based scheme utilising the existing university's LAN network and ducts, replacing all the cameras with IP enabled ones, increasing the total number of cameras on the four sites to 70. We also designed a new space saving control room to enable an efficient command and control system to manage and record the images more efficiently and reduce transmission costs

We evaluated the existing CCTV system and provided costed options to reduce revenue costs by migration to alternative transmission options; we recommended the installation of a digital recording system for their 71 cameras. We recommended costed options to relocate the existing CCTV Control Room andwe dealt with the tender spcification and project managed the control room upgrade and the implementation of digital recording.

Global MSC designed and specified an IP solution to enable images from any of the 1,100 CCTV cameras from various cities, towns and villages around the three counties to be transmitted to either of the two remote police command and control suites using the police network.

Newcastle City Council have a number of diverse, independent CCTV control rooms and they wish to avail themselves of the opportunities afforded by developing technology, to consolidate these facilities and to reduce running costs and comply with the National CCTV Strategy. They asked Global MSC to host and facilitate a ‘Strategy Day’ for key Stakeholders to establish their requirements and a way forward

We were commissioned to Project Manage the CCTV upgrade for the Art at the Centre in the High Street as well as being commissioned to advise on the security implications of artwork being permanently being displayed in the High Street, together with numerous trees intended to be planted to ‘soften’ the environment to make it more pedestrian friendly. Recommendations were made to deal with camera blind spots being created and improved illumination consequences.

We specified and project managed the installation of a town centre CCTV system for remote monitoring by a neighbouring authority in the Hanham area of Bristol. We also conducted a procurement exercise for the installation and maintenance contractor.

In addition, we have undertaken the project management of the upgrade of transmission for a number of existing town centre IP CCTV systems throughout the councils’ area to ‘self-provide’ fibre using analogue transmission and to install new camera systems in other remote areas.

We were required to progress the Community Control Room options to satisfy the requirements of a Joint Venture Company and ensure all 24/7 services were considered for a joint control room. Interviews with relevant officers were conducted and a report with recommendations was produced.

The council wished to secure a Travellers’ and Gypsy site and to obtain evidence of anti-social and criminal behaviour. Global MSC Security were tasked to design a system, minimising the revenue costs and utilising nearby existing fibre optic links for monitoring at a nearby established town centre CCTV control room.

After many considerations, it was decided that COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) was the best option for the project.

The council wished to install a traffic management system that would use variable message signing to inform drivers of remaining car park spaces in various car parks. These would be controlled by Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) counting vehicles in and out of the car parks. Global MSC were commissioned to identify suitable signage, back office software and ANPR management software.