CCTV Security - Case StudiesNewcastle City Centre Keeping shoppers safe
Recognising the need to do more to safeguard its shoppers, tourists and residents, Newcastle City council selected a comprehensive CCTV system to reduce crime .
The effects of introducing the system were dramatic. Vehicle crime showed the most dramatic reduction with the theft of vehicles down by 56%, and theft from vehicles down by 40%. There was also a 50% reduction in burglary and a 47% decrease in criminal damage, while assaults decreased by 19%.
Visitors can now use the city centre freely in the knowledge that the risk of becoming a victim of crime is greatly reduced.
London Borough of Hackney Protecting the public
With the aim of reducing crime in the Borough, ADT won the tender to install 70 new cameras at strategic sites, to work with the existing 56 camera network in Hackney.
The system covers markets, car parks, housing estates, shopping areas and bus lanes and sends pictures to the Borough’s state-of-the-art CCTV and Emergency Planning Monitoring Suite. More than £1 million was invested in the project, and 600 km of fibre-optic cables were laid beneath 10km of Hackney’s road network. Particular hotspots and times when crimes occur have now been identified, in order to ensure the best use of CCTV operators.
One of the largest CCTV projects of its type in the UK, the ADT system was completed on time in just nine months.