Local government is increasingly tasked with the responsibility for reducing crime and controlling the associated costs of crime. With rising costs from arson, vandalism and glass breakages at schools, and anti-social behaviour in public libraries - deploying a networked digital surveillance system provided by Europarc can help.

By deploying CCTV across multi-service networks and utilising common infrastructures, the convergence of networked surveillance increases the effectiveness of systems and can also lower the total cost of ownership.

CCTV and public area surveillance

Local Councils and the Government over the last two decades have recognised a growing value in the use of camera surveillance in town centres and other public areas as a means of reducing crime and eliminating anti-social behaviour.

The footage from such systems has been used on countless occasions to assist in both large and small scale criminal investigations. Europarc's expertise has helped numerous local authorities to install specialist security cover.

Since the first systems were installed, camera technology has moved on a long way, with all parts of a camera system now available in a digital format. The benefits can be enormous, for example with Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and Digital Timelapse recorders, it is possible to do away with cumbersome, low quality video tapes and instead record straight to a DVRs inbuilt hard drive or external storage. When combined with digital cameras the results are high resolution video stored cheaply. Access and analysis become immeasurably easier and significantly less time consuming. This allows evidence to be gathered swiftly and with great accuracy.