CCTV & Security Consulting

Two quite different jobs sit under this heading. One is building a system: specifying cameras, access control and alarms for premises that need them, installing them properly, and monitoring them afterwards. The other is examining a system that already exists, which is usually prompted by something happening that it failed to capture.

That second conversation is the more common one, and the finding is rarely that more cameras are needed. It is that the cameras already there are pointed at the wrong things, recording at a quality that cannot identify anybody, overwriting faster than incidents get reported, or covering the areas that were easy to wire rather than the areas where loss occurs. A review starts from the question the system is meant to answer — identifying a face at an entrance, reading a plate at a gate, and establishing what happened on a shop floor are three different technical problems, and a camera that solves one will usually fail the others.

Covert installation is a separate discipline again. Where a business is losing stock and cannot see how, cameras concealed in ordinary fixtures put eyes on the place the loss is actually happening. That work has real legal limits, set out below, and there are installations we will decline.

The same scrutiny applies to access: who holds keys and codes, whether anybody ever revoked them, which doors are genuinely secured outside hours, and who is in the building when nobody is watching.