Christmas brings various opportunities and risks todifferent types of businesses. Some thrive and are exceptionally busy,developing considerable increased income over a fairly short period of time.Others are very quiet with clients not looking to start new projects or investin equipment leading up to the holiday period. Both of these scenarios bringrisk. To the happy businessperson, [...]

With the significant progress and advancements of analytics and intelligent video, CCTV cameras are becoming more interactive with operations and able to provide a higher return on investment to organisations. However, we continually see smaller sites, or those without dedicated monitoring or broader integrated systems, installing pan tilt zoom (PTZ) cameras to provide greater coverage […]

From my experience acting in a building security consultancy capacity, it is clear that security measures are generally taken into account when developing operational arrangements in buildings. Most buildings will have a basic CCTV and intruder system and some form of access management (whether mechanical and/or automated). However, there is often a lack of cohesiveness […]

Last week the Liberal Democrat’s justice spokesperson, Christine Jardine, said that the party will propose that prisoners will be given internet access. This is an interesting debate as it goes without saying that we now live in IT world and there are huge educational, social and research benefits to the internet. The rehabilitation of prisoners […]

Following on from my previous blog regarding prisoners having access to the internet, the justice spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, Christine Jardine, has also outlined their motion to stop women from going to prison except in the gravest of cases. In a world where women struggle to be treated equally, whether via respect in the […]