We are pleased to announce the final line-up of speakers for the Safe Newcastle & Global MSC Security Seminar on 25th November 2008 in Newcastle.

Garry Parkins (Co-author of the National CCTV Strategy) will be opening the seminar with an insight into implementation of the Strategy. We are also pleased to welcome back Dr David Murakami Wood (of Surveillance & Society and Newcastle University) to provide an interesting and insightful look into the history, technologies, practices and ethics of surveillance.

In addition we have an exciting mix of end-users, who will be discussing how they have been implementing solutions that meet the Strategy, as well as developers of software and manufacturers who will be demonstrating the benefits their products can offer to meet the strategic aims.

A full line-up of speakers is as follows:

• Garry Parkins (Co-author of the National CCTV Strategy)
• Dr David Murakami Wood (Sureveillance & Society / Newcastle University)
• Paul De Jong (Envisage Technology)
• David Needham (Panasonic)
• Chief Inspector Bob Ryan (Northumbria Police)
• Stuart Meyers (Meyertech)
• Mike Withers (Salisbury District Council)
• Mark Marriage (COE)
• Richard Naden & Tony Marsh (PersideS)
• David White (Global MSC Security)
• Robin Gill (Norbain)
• Gordon McLanaghan (Bristol City Council)
• Steve Dobby (Derwent Lighting)
• Derek Scott (Quadrant Security Group)
• Julie Busby (Multipix Imaging)

For further details about this event please go to the Seminar section of this website or contact us

Global MSC Security have been appointed by West Oxfordshire District Council to investigate options to manage their traffic flow in and around Witney.

It is intended to identify vehicles using Automatice Number Plate Recognition technology to count vehicles entering and leaving their car parks which will generate changes in Variable Message Signage to provide drivers with information on where the car parking spaces are available.

Donal MacIntyre presents this new eight part series from the frontline of urban crime. With unique access to control rooms and police forces across the UK, CCTV Cities reveals how operators and police combine around the clock to catch criminals in the act. The first episode (shown on Channel Five on Monday 7th July 2008 at 10pm) was based in Leeds, where Donal watched on as officers monitored violent behaviour in the city centre and kept a watchful eye on drunk revellers who were in danger of attack.

In the fight against antisocial behaviour, more and more British cities are turning to sophisticated CCTV systems in a bid to tackle crime. This series presents shocking footage showing how UK towns have become nightly battlegrounds for drunks and hooligans.

The first episode of the series came from Leeds, where some 350 cameras keep watch on an area of 240 square miles. Donal visited the headquarters of Leedswatch, where nine specially trained operators monitored the feeds, directing police to catch petty criminals, violent drunks, ram-raiders, car thieves and even witnessed a suicide attempt. The remaining episodes of this series will be shown on Monday evenings at 10pm on Five and will feature different aspects of CCTV around the UK.

Parkridge Holdings Ltd are developing a retail, car park and residential area, at Shires Gateway, in Trowbridge Town Centre, Wiltshire.

Global MSC Security has been commissioned to design a CCTV system that will interface with the existing Trowbridge Town Centre public space CCTV system and meet all planning conditions.