RE: CCTV Issues

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a Geovision based system, and there are a couple of features in
the software that I imagine are there purely to satisfy the requirements
of being admissible.

One is digital watermarking of the recorded files. According to the
software this feature can guarantee that the footage has not been edited
or tampered with in any way. The other is date & Time stamping on the
image.

There may be other stuff in there as well, I've not delved that deeply
into it yet...

Paul G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Benfield, John (IT Services, ID) [mailto:john.benfield@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 October 2004 09:18
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CCTV Issues


>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.

I had the local crime prevention office around some time ago. One of his
comments to be was that a picture showing someone doing the deed is
often
enough for them to admit to it and there not needed as court evidence.

I've also found a company that does commercial remote cctv coverage
using
Geo-Vision cards in PC's. These guys do it as a business, so I guess
that
they use there stuff in court.

JB



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