The security week: Ticket touts, batteries, antique clashes and Elvis Costello

Another action-packed week at I4S, with the venerable editor of SMT magazine, Brian Sims, pulling no punches in his assessment of the ticket touting blight.
There was more advice for installers, also, with the BSIA advising them to get ready for next year’s EU Battery Directive. And the BSIA went and launched a handbook on access [...]

Antiques Roadshow and armoured cars

It’s the clash of the titans: the BBC’s aging warhorse Antiques Roadshow versus the nimble, spry and youthful Safer Doors conference. Why are these two important national institutions at loggerheads? Brian Sims puts his own personal safety to one side and wades into the conflict to provide the answers.
And following yesterday’s news of forthcoming battery-based [...]

Install and battery

Y’know, sometimes I think that we don’t talk about batteries enough – not just on I4S, but generally. Today we attempt to redress the balance somewhat with a story about the impact of a new EU directive on security installers. And yes, it’s battery-based!
They’re pretty progressive in Sweden, or so we’re led to believe. Cut-price [...]

Ticketing treachery and access assistance

Today I4S takes the ticket touts to task in inimitable fashion via the medium of Brian Sims’ SMT Editor’s View.
There’s also a useful guide available from the good folks at the BSIA with information and assistance on access control installations.
Don’t forget about the opportunity to register for our interesting and wonderful conference which looks at [...]

The security week: Conference excitement, fraud, and The Alarm

Yet another week of action-packed fun and adventure at I4S – we’ve brought you the news of an exciting, important, and, crucially, future-proof conference on Next Generation CCTV, taking place in November. One of the great things about it is that it’s supported by info4security.com, so I, for one, suggest that you head along. It’s [...]

Important new CCTV conference – and dastardly thieves

Today we bring you details of a new and important conference dealing with the future of CCTV. If I were more of a prat, I’d say it dealt with ‘CCTV going forward’. Or zooming. Anyway, it’s called Next Generation CCTV, it’s in November, and we at I4S are supporting it, so I’d thoroughly recommend you [...]

SIA licensing news, the megapixel future, and spamspamspam

Today brings news of a new service from the SIA which is designed to speed up licence applications by way of direct link between digital passports and the application process.
There’s also details on a 60 megapixel mobile camera unit being used for mapping purposes – could it point the way forward for evidential quality mobile [...]

Chip and PIN badness and opinion artillery

Today industry doyen Alan Hyder uses his Editor’s View to blast out his opinion artillery, taking aim at think tanks, massaged crime figures, metal theft, operator-less CCTV – and the Beatles. Read the Security Installer editor’s column and gain valuable insights.
Chip and PIN was meant to be the solution to card fraud and other nefarious [...]

Crime on screen – and more about Schmidt

Today we bring the story of a Japanese man being shocked by a large screen into returning a bicycle he had stolen. Why? CCTV and stuff, that’s why. And his own sense of shame.
Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti chips in with her lengthy thoughts on modern British policing.
And currency conversion types Travelex have gone for an [...]

The security week: Guarding debts, pub CCTV, and revolution

It’s been another action-packed week at info4security. Brian Sims reported on a report which suggested some guarding companies could be heading debtwards – and there was a celebrity-endorsed DVD which aims to put CCTV in more pubs and clubs.
Brian also gave us his Editor’s View on matters Premier League and pointy, while his erstwhile colleague, [...]