Re: CCTV Issues

["Richard Challis" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have two cameras at the front of my house which also cover my neighbours
drive and front door.

I took digi photos of the pictures from the monitor (they weren't on a pc
at
that stage) and printed them and showed them to my neighbour (who is a
copper) and asked if he minded them covering his property etc. and offered
to turn them down further if he had any objections, he was quite happy with
them and that I had asked him. In fact was quite pleased as they add
security to his property at no cost to him.

I am very lucky in that I get on with my neighbours. YMMV.

I look after a installation that uses two geovision cards to record the
cctv. We had some vandals the other month, successfully prosecuted 3 out of
4 of them (the local copper was very pleased as he had wanted evidence on
two of them for a while) It didn't go to court, so don't know how the
images
would have stood up in there, but was enough to get them arrested. The
police were rather bemused when I handed them a CD and printouts as
evidence. They seemed quite happy with it.

Regards

Richard


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shmern" <shmern@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CCTV Issues


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> Now I don't know the law, but I would suggest standard PC might be the
key
> line here. I work in a large Organisation who have over 100 CCTV
cameras,
> all of which are recorded onto HD, admittedly these recorders are
dedicated
> devices (But they run Linux,
> http://www.dedicatedmicros.com/dedicatedmicros/product/proindex.html
Digital
> sprite range) , but the Security manager has many times transferred
footage
> to his PC and trimmed it and submitted it to the Police (on CD) for
> evidence.
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> Darren
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> > "CCTV footage stored on a standard PC is inadmissible as
evidence in a
> > court of law, it cannot be used as evidence. But there's no law
against
> > anyone doing this."
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> > Jim
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