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Cega was founded in 1973 when two brothers, Graham and Clive Ponsford set up an aviation company at Shoreham Airport.  Operations soon moved to Goodwood, Chichester to meet a growing demand for repatriation of sick and injured holidaymakers.  By 1982 the founders decided to make Cega a dedicated air ambulance service, employing its own flight and medical crews.  Cega Group is in the top league of medical assistance companies globally, with a client list, which includes premier hou...

Inner city regeneration is believed to improve economic performance and tackle unemployment in our cities.  It also enables making the productive use of some of the brown field sites.  The Custard Factory in Birmingham is an example of how disused old industrial buildings can be brought back to life from what had seemed like terminal decline.  Sir Alfred Bird, who invented Birds custard powder, built the Custard Factory 100 years ago.  By the end of the 1800's Alfred Bird's s...

SCA Packaging is a leading provider in Europe of customer-specific packaging solutions with emphasis on state-of-the-art design and local service close to customer facilities.  SCA Aylesford is part of the Southern Region of SCA Packaging UK & Ireland and supplies industries such as consumer goods, produce, fmcg (fast moving consumer goods).  All products are produced from renewable and recyclable materials.  The Aylesford plant was opened in 1930 and the site also includes th...

The Sterile Services Unit at King George Hospital is responsible for cleaning, sterilising, checking, packing and distribution of hospital theatre and other equipment.  Their area spans Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals NHS trust.  TSSU also provides services for many private clinics and hospitals in the area.  The unit is extremely busy and in early 2005 the building was extended.  As part of the refurbishment project Jim Harold, Security Manager for Barking, Haverin...

March NetworksTM, a leading provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based digital video surveillance solutions, introduced today the new members of its UK sales team.Under the leadership of Michael Rack, March Networks' Vice President of Sales for UK and Ireland, the UK sales team has expanded to include three industry veterans.  Jamie Barnfield and Martin Cowley join the Company, as Sales Managers while Ian Dickinson will take on the role of Customer Services Manager.  The UK sales tea...

Highly complex, wide-ranging system comprises hundreds of cameras to protect games DVTel Inc., multiple award-winning market leader in the development and delivery of intelligent security solutions over IP networks, today announced that the company's intelligent Security Operations Center (iSOC) was utilized as the command and control software for the IP-based, integrated security system at the 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.  The Games were conducted over 12 days in March...

Genie CCTV, specialists in the supply of CCTV camera systems and accessories, has promoted Sales Manager Simon Green to the position of Sales Director.Simon, who has been with the company for three and half years, will now assume all strategic sales responsibilities in the UK and Ireland, driving up revenue streams as new products come on board as well as providing sales support and training for Genie's growing sales team.Steve Baker, Managing Director of Genie CCTV, said: "We are very...

Stockport Art Gallery, home to one of the north of England's most eclectic collections of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture, has updated its security protection with the installation of new digital equipment from Genie CCTV.The magnificent neo-classical Art Gallery - part of Stockport Council - boasts three exhibition spaces made up of the main, west and east galleries.  The small permanent collection consists of approximately 50 paintings including examples by the celebrated lo...

HID Global, a leading manufacturer in the access control industry, today announced that it has increased its sales support for the EMEA region with the appointment of Rob Pattiwaël as regional sales manager.  Pattiwaël will be based in the Netherlands, with sales responsibilities for the Benelux territory, comprising Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. ‘'I am able to offer my extensive experience working for installers and have good knowledge of the security market in t...

The Handkey II system provides a high security solution at a price which compares to many card based systems.  With Handkey II your hand is your card, allowing access only to authorised persons without having the hassle of a key or a card.  By eliminating the card you reduce the administrative cost, increase security and eliminate the worry for users and administrators about having to keep track of a card or key. Real security Saves money over card based systems Fast and easy to use In...

Pan-European broadband networking company Easynet partner VisimetricsVisimetrics (UK) Ltd has been selected by Easynet to partner them in providing businesses and organisations with converged digital security and surveillance solutions throughout Europe.  The integrated solution provides innovative IP-based digital security and surveillance for companies looking to significantly improve their security responsiveness without compromising network operability. The solution is based on a wholly...

Following the recent acquisition of Initial Security by MITIE Group PLC, the group announced today the completion of the rebranding of all Initial Security services under the MITIE Security identity.Founded in 1979, Initial Security grew to become one of the UK's leading providers of manned security services with customers in sectors including retail, transport, distribution and commercial offices.The acquisition has significantly enhanced the MITIE Security coverage with the 20 branch netwo...

Operations Director, Southern RegionIan Foster has been appointed Operations Director - Southern Region.  Prior to joining Reliance in July 1996 he spent 22 years in the cable and pipe industry working in both sales and general management positions with HE Sampson, BICC, and latterly with Brown and Tawse as general manager of their Southern Region.  Since joining Reliance, Ian has held various general management positions within the business.Operations Director, Northern RegionChris Bu...

Since the tragic events in London on 7/7 last year, and the attempted bombings two weeks later, CCTV has in been in the spotlight as never before.  Thankfully a number of BSIA members were able to assist the police in the reviewing of crucial CCTV images in the aftermath.  These events have certainly underlined the vast improvement in the quality of CCTV evidence available to the police compared to that provided in past incidents.  For example in the Jamie Bulger case 13 years ago...

A high-quality video surveillance system has already proved its worth in catching thieves at the Kendleshire Golf Club - and new uses are constantly being foundThere are no easy pickings for thieves targeting the Kendleshire's clubhouse or its members' cars.  Even if something does happen, security camera recordings give a clear view of faces and number plates, thanks to constant vigilance over vulnerable areas such as the car park, bars, the professional's shop and the fruit machine.  ...

Cwmbran-based Access Security Specialist, Bewator, has assisted one man and his team of supporters in a charity fundraising motorcycle expedition to the Arctic Circle.Managing Director of Bewator Ltd, Robert Cotterill, lent his support to close friend, John Foster, in a 2,200 mile trip in aid of the British Heart Foundation, a charity John shares a personal affiliation with.Six years ago John, a keen motorcyclist, was diagnosed with incurable congestive heart failure.  Although his conditio...

Bosch Security Systems has been awarded the contract to provide CCTV systems for video surveillance at the world's most famous folk festival - and beer festival - Oktoberfest in Munich, for the sixth consecutive year.The contract has been awarded by the security authorities of the City of Munich for Bosch to install 12 AutoDome cameras at the main entrance, the tents' access points and along the rows of rides.Bosch's AutoDome camera is an automatic camera with a dome-shaped housing, which can sw...

Pan and tilts and camera housings from Conway Security have been installed on the £1.5bn Oresund bridge link between Sweden and Denmark, the £420m Dublin Port Tunnel and a £200m highway in China, which will stretch as far as Inner Mongolia. Now, closer to home, the same combination of units is being used as part of major roadworks on the UK's oldest motorway, the M1, in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.  Reflecting on this range of projects, Chris Newman of Conway, said: &qu...

Vision Fire & Security appoints Regional Sales Executive for ADPRO CCTV solutions in Continental Europe, Julius Klein Molekamp has a degree in Electronics Design and has worked in several sales and service engineering roles within the Video Security Industry.  Julius also has a Law degree and has gained practical experience in penal law, where video evidence from crime scenes is often gathered for evidential proof in courts of law. Julius comments: "With my electronic, sales and la...

ADT Fire and Security was recognised for its support of members of the Reserve Forces at a reception hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales, at his Clarence House residence, on Wednesday.  ADT employs 18 Reservists, of which 6 have been mobilised for service in Iraq. Hazel Nugent, ADT's Corporate HR Manager for Europe & South Africa, was one of more than 50 employers from across the UK who attended the reception.  She said: "We are proud to support our Reservists.  They perfor...

Videx Security has supplied over 200-door entry systems for a Care and Repair Project run by Stirling Council, which sees Stirling's older people, are benefiting from a new £400,000 home security scheme.  This was initially set up to provide homeowners over the age of 85 with security products to make them feel more secure in their own home.  Each home in the scheme is individually assessed and besides the Videx video security door entry system, homes may also be fitted with smok...

CCTV manufacturer AD Group, the parent company of Dedicated Micros, was one of only ten UK businesses - and the sole representative from the security sector - to be recognized as ‘One to Watch' in the authoritative annual Sunday Times Profit Track 100 survey.When making their selection for the ‘One to Watch' category - new for 2006 - the judges from Fast Track, the independent research company, and sponsors PricewaterhouseCoopers visited each of the contenders, focusing not only on a...

To help improve and update the security system at the Møller Centre, a leading Cambridge-based residential training and conference centre, the company has chosen to install the latest Siemens Building Technologies Security Products access security system.The conference centre is owned by Churchill College at Cambridge University and was designed by Danish architect, Henning Larsen.  The AP Møller Foundation of Denmark funded the building to promote continuing educati...

The historic market town of Thame in Oxfordshire recently implemented a new CCTV system throughout its centre.  Thame is home to twelve thousand residents including legendary Bee Gee Robin Gibb.  Curtailing Saturday Night Fever will be one of the primary objectives of the system.The Titan Heritage units are ideally suited to such an installation where the brief of the customer demanded aesthetic integration and compatibility with existing transmission and video management systems. ...

Jeff Kitching, ADPRO Sales Director, encourages the security industry to give Video Motion Detection another look. Video Motion Detection (VMD), three words that arrived on the scene in the late 1980s to herald the start of a detection revolution.  Only the hype did not quite match the reality. Much was written at the time and subsequently about the potential for VMD.  It was, we were told, not just an alternative to PIRs, fence vibration systems and other detection technologies, but...

DIS-1 and DIS-2 devices use Dallmeier's SeMSy technology which enables different media data streams There are many different applications for a modern CCTV system in retailing. CCTV is used to prevent theft in shops and stores, to provide evidence of robberies and break-ins and to uncover employee fraud or deception. Attractive product ranges don't just please honest customers, they also tempt light-fingered people to help themselves.  But it isn't just security which ben...

National systems integrator Bell Security has been using Europlex's Tracer Lite DVR to help a number of major clients bring their CCTV surveillance up to date. In the most recent project, an international university complex in the heart of London's West End has benefited from an upgrade to full digital recording.Using the Tracer Lite, the imposing 27,000 square foot listed building on the North-West corner of Trafalgar Square has been equipped with a fully networkable and scalable CCTV s...

Fly-tipping has become a real thorn in the side of local authorities in Britain.  The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) estimates that councils are having to spend £100 a minute to keep up with the tide of waste, which is quite literally spilling out across the country in fields, lay-bys and even on the road side.  What is encouraging from a CCTV point of view is that local authorities are starting to look at mobile CCTV systems - which can be deployed ra...

COE Group plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems is pleased to announce the appointment of John Clarkson as UK Sales Director.John has joined COE from Wayfarer Transit Systems, the major supplier of integrated ticketing and smart card systems for public transport, where he was UK and Export Sales Director.  A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, John is a career transport professional who has specialised in systems sales to the transi...

Vicon's annual golf days always seem to bring out the best in everybody that attends and this year was no exception.  In addition to playing some high quality golf, guests collectively raised over £1200 for good causes via a charity auction of golfing prizes won on the day and donated by Vicon.The main beneficiaries will be the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Bobby Moore Bowel Cancer Charity although a proportion of the money will be donated to the Guide Dogs for the Blind. The main St...