Objectivity

One of the most important reasons for using the services of a consultant is to receive completely unbiased and objective advice. Most installing companies have preferred products for very sensible commercial reasons. It is natural therefore that they should present these in the best possible light. It can be very difficult for a customer to differentiate between the claims of competing salespeople.

Serving Your Interest

A professional consultant is employed by you and has no incentive to promote any particular product or system. Most consultants keep up to date on the performance of various products through experience with installations and trouble shooting. Not all products that appear equal to the layperson are necessarily so. The consultant can steer you away from products with a poor track record for performance or reliability. The pressure on the customer to differentiate between competing proposals is eliminated.

Saving Your Time

Most business people these days have little enough time to spare and will be directing their efforts into running their company. The old saying that time is money to the business person has never been truer; the cost of a consultant can frequently be repaid by the extra time released.

Saving You Money

Most people have had experience of the wide variations in price between competing quotations for apparently the same specification. Unlike the purchase of machines or standard products, CCTV or access control systems are likely to be a new venture by many companies and local authorities. They simply cannot be expected to have the experience and detailed knowledge on which to judge differing proposals.

Peace Of Mind

Technology development moves rapidly, with many ways of increasing the effectiveness of both new and existing systems. Digital recording, video transmission both wireless and hardwired, ruggedised cameras, detection of movement, etc. are all very much more advanced than only a year ago. Even so, products with apparently similar specifications to the layperson can differ dramatically in actual performance under particular circumstances. This is especially true in the case of digital recording and so called digital cameras. Objective advice can be invaluable in the selection of the right equipment for the job.

Global MSC can audit and assess your CCTV system and if appropriate, recommend changes to enhance its performance for the least possible outlay. We can also review your cost structure, and suggest changes or reasons for renegotiation.

If you already possess a security system, you should ask these questions on a regular basis:

• Is its performance satisfactory?
• Is it getting out of date?
• Does it meet your original objectives?
• Does it meet any new objectives that have arisen?
• Does it cost more than you think it should?
• In these days of advancing technology, is, for example, the CCTV camera refresh rate still sufficient?
• Are you using the most cost effective transmission solution?
• Does it meet guidelines for the admissibility of evidence?
• Does it comply with all of the latest relevant legislation?
• Do you need ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition)?

Many managers and operators of public space and private security systems fail to understand or comply with their legal responsibilities, especially with regard to the admissibility of CCTV images as evidence, rendering them worthless.

Codes of Practice, Procedures and the training through which to understand and practice them are essential.

At Global MSC, we are experts in explaining the complex. As former law enforcement officers and security experts, we speak the language of your staff. We pride ourselves that our operations manuals and our training days are models of clarity and practical advice.

We run training sessions covering every aspect of security system usage, including:

• Code of Practice
• Human Rights
• Operating Procedures
• Compliance with the National CCTV Strategy
• Ethical camera use
• Court room preparation
• Statements and written logs
• Tape management
• Health and Safety guidelines
• Camera technique
• Regulation of investigatory powers
• Directed surveillance
• Staff selection and development
• System assessment for the maintenance of best value
• Covert operations

Global MSC Security provides security advice, consultancy, training and the project management of installations for our clients and include such duties as:

• Security and CCTV design - assessments, feasibility and implementation
• Assess the Operational Requirements of the system
• Assess the alternative transmission options for your CCTV system
• Consider the implications of Retrieval of Evidence from digital systems
• Consider the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
• Intruder Detection, Perimeter Protection and Access Control requirements.
• Compile tender specifications
• Provide project management
• Co-ordinate suppliers and maintain auditable process trails
• Construction, Design and Management (CDM) supervision