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CBC's College Surveillance lesson
Date Posted: 15/6/06
A surveillance system supplied by CBC (Europe) Ltd has helped The Rutland College improve safety and security for students and staff at its Leicestershire campus.
The College, part of Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education, commissioned the equipment to protect a number of potentially vulnerable areas around the site, including building perimeters and a number of entrance doors to main access/egress areas. The system bolsters an existing perimeter fence, plus access control and associated door locks already in use.
With no pre-existing CCTV measures in place, College managers requested tender quotes for the work and selected installation company Secom plc to carry it out.
Sales manager Mick Taylor explains that a combination of CBC's new C-Dome surveillance units and ZC-D3000 domes were specified, along with a Ganz 16-channel digital video recorder fitted with a 640 Gbyte hard drive. This has been set up to record at up to 3 frames per second to provide a minimum of 31 days of recording time.
Feeding pictures to the recorder are six indoor ZC-D3000 dome cameras. Secom also specified six of CBC's outdoor C-Domes, which boast a number of extra features in addition to their sister indoor C-Dome models. These include optical as well as digital zooms, day & night functionality (which can be manually switched), plus preset and mimic tours.
Secom's Mick Taylor adds that the surveillance system proved its worth shortly after its installation, when recorded images of a graffiti incident on-site were obtained for use as part of a subsequent police prosecution. This function fulfils part of the system's operational requirement, namely evidence gathering – in addition to its long-term deterrent function.
Describing why he specified CBC equipment, Mr Taylor notes that, as one of its approved suppliers, Secom endorses CBC's high product standards plus its level of pre-installation and back-up service. "CBC consistently supplies us with excellent kit that we find cost-effective, proven and reliable. That's been demonstrated by the lack of problems following the system's installation. What is more, the same client has asked to quote for additional work at other sites, based on the success achieved at The Rutland College."
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Ford dealership combats crime using Computar and Ganz surveillance
Date Posted: 01/06/06
A range of surveillance equipment has been supplied by leading specialist supplier, CBC to improve security for one of the largest Ford car dealerships in north-east
England. In total, five sites, owned by the Patterson Motor Group, have benefited from this additional protection.
The CCTV measures have been introduced to combat a number of different problems the company had experienced at the sites. These included break-ins, as well
as thefts of vehicles at storage compounds and otherwise vulnerable items such as valuable alloy wheels and stereo systems.
Patterson Ford, which was first established in 1911 and began its partnership with Ford in 1926, employs some 325 staff in Newcastle and North Tyneside. It sells around 12,500 new and used cars and commercial vehicles
annually, with a turnover of approximately £200 million. As part of its commitment to improved long-term customer service, the company is currently engaged in a
programme of upgrading its various premises in the area.
This project has included an ambitious £1.4 million redevelopment of the company’s Shiremoor Road dealership site in North Tyneside, completed in summer
2005. Elsewhere, Patterson Ford’s site in Hexham - comprising a showroom and workshop – was refitted earlier in 2005, while an adjacent site at Gardiner Street
has already benefited from improved security installed by consultancy RJ Security.
CBC’s UK Sales Manager, John Downie, explains that the company worked closely with RJ Security: “We liaised closely on this project to identify the client’s most
vulnerable locations and develop a system to meet the needs of Ford Patterson both now and into the future”.Mr Downie confirms that the surveillance equipment
provided to protect the various locations involved includes CBC Ganz branded ZC-D3000 range of colour and day ight dome cameras, deployed for both internal and external surveillance. Also supplied were a number of Ganz high-resolution static colour cameras, all fitted with Computar Aspherical Varifocal lenses. Images from all of these units are now recorded & stored on Ganz ZR-DH1621NP triplex+ digital video recorders that are monitored both locally and at Patterson Ford’s security
control centre via a secure broadband local area network backed up by ISDN.
RJ Security’s Proprietor, Rob Johnston, adds that the control centre in Newcastle, which is manned around the clock by the company’s security team, also remotely monitors the surveillance cameras in real-time and reacts to any detector-activated incidents and the audio facilities allows the operators to warn off suspected intruders.
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