Crime Stats for Leeds in 2016

Leeds is in West Yorkshire, and is home to over 750,000 people. The higher population levels in the average city mean it’s not unusual to find a higher incidence of crime there. Leeds is no different in this respect, even though most people are unaffected.

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What goes bump in the night? Mums sleepless over burglary fears

Fear of crime soars in mothers as they worry about family and home in modern Britain Mothers in the United Kingdom fear crime against their family and property on a daily basis and lose sleep over it. A national security camera company has found that nine-tenths of mothers with children under 16 living at home ...

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CCTV & The Data Protection Act – Business CCTV Explained

Any business which uses a CCTV system for security or monitoring purposes needs to be aware of its legal obligations. As a collector of data (the recorded images from a camera system), organisations automatically fall under the provisions of both the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Acts. In the case of the Human Rights Act, the ...

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Campaign: Make CCTV mandatory in all new homes and commercial properties

Why? The Home Office reports the average cost of theft is £1,000 (£5,000 when a vehicle is involved) Police budgets are being slashed weekly Local Council CCTV systems are being taken down If CCTV was installed properly as standard – then not only would crime be deterred, but the Police would be able to use ...

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Three-quarters of CCTV Cameras in the UK – DO NOT WORK!

It seems amazing in this day and age that owners of CCTV Systems are putting their homes and businesses at risk by not keeping their camera systems working properly. We recently surveyed 300 camera systems as part of our day-to-day repair work to existing systems – and we found that 75% of the systems examined ...

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Is CCTV helping the economy?

How much do you think CCTV helps our society? We already know that it helps bring protection to our streets and we also realise that it allows justice to be done with police able to formally identify suspected criminals. But how else does it aid our day to day lives? Well, according to recent reports, ...

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