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CCTV Systems designed and
installed to suit every budget.
Everywhere you go these days CCTV Security Systems are watching your every move. They have become an integral part of our daily life - the reason - they are the ultimate deterrent against crime.
Whether installed in the High Street Shopping Centre, Railway Station, lift or any one of countless retail outlets, you can be sure that you've been recorded somewhere today. Whatever your thoughts on the proliferation of the closed circuit television camera in modern society, one fact is true, CCTV Systems catch criminals at work. But as well as being a silent witness to criminal activity it is often used to provide protection and reassurance for staff members, or maybe to monitor an automated production process.
Advances in technology in recent years have lead to the smaller cameras, higher definition pictures, and the introduction of audio recording.
CCTV Security Systems can now be integrated with alarm monitoring equipment to provide improved evidence of a crime in progress. They can even be monitored anywhere in the world via the World Wide Web.
The latest state of the art digital recording devices allow simultaneous capture of high resolution images directly to a hard disk drive, allowing you to go about your business without worrying about tape management or poor quality images caused by tape degradation.
Whatever you require from a CCTV Security System, Knight Installations has the answers to provide you with the most flexible and cost effective video surveillance package.
CCTV and the Data Protection Act 1998
Any CCTV Security System used to record images of individuals must comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998. Failure to do so may result in a fine by the government of up to £5000 for the system owner. Some sytems may be exempt from the act, an example of these, is those that do not record and those that are installed in a private residence.
What do you have to do to comply with the act?
1. Register
The owner of the CCTV Security System must notify the Government's Information Commissioners Office that they are processing data in the form of CCTV recordings. This can be done on-line at www.dataprotection.gov.uk or by post (call 01625 545700 to request an application form). The charge for registering is currently £35.
2. Signs
Signs must be mounted adjacent to the entrance to areas where CCTV is in operation. For external areas where a CCTV Security System is in operation signs should be fitted to the perimeter or approaches.
3. Security
Recording equipment (i.e. Video Recorders, including Hard Drive and PC based systems, etc...) and Recording Media (i.e. Video Cassettes, Hard Drives, etc...) should be held in a secure area (such as a locked room or office) or in purpose made secure storage cabinets and accessible only by individuals responsible for the operation of the system.
4. Audit Trail
All non-hard drive recordings, i.e. recording stored on video cassettes, CD's, video prints, etc must carry a unique serial number that links with an entry in a recordings log book.
5. Erasure
For all non-hard drive based systems, the medium (i.e. video cassettes, etc...) on which the images are captured should be erased before re-use so that images are not recorded on top of images recorded previously. At the end of a recording mediums useful life it is recommended that you destroy it.
6. Privacy
All recordings must be held in a secure manner accessible only to individuals and organisations named in a site-specific code of practice. If cameras are capable of viewing areas where an individual may have a reasonable right to privacy e.g. within his/her home some form of physical masking or electronic privacy zoning should be installed.
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