Four cameras have been installed at Nicholls Park in an attempt to prevent vandalism and graffiti there.

In recent years, the city has spent thousands of dollars to remove graffiti throughout Nicholls Park, near 1200 Nicholls Road, and to repair broken parts at its Castle Heights Playground.

Officials hope the CCTV cameras will deter further problems.

The cameras have been placed at the park bowery, bathrooms, play structure, and next to the softball and soccer fields.

Anyone caught damaging the park will be prosecuted, city officials say.

Two cameras also have been installed just up the street from the park at Fruit Heights’ city maintenance building, where numerous items have been stolen in the past year.

The city would like to install more cameras in other locations of the city next year, including on the trails behind the park.

The Davis County Sheriff’s Department and Fruit Heights city will monitor the CCTV camera recordings.

The cameras have vandal-proof domes that are nearly impossible to vandalize. Any attempts to vandalize the cameras will be recorded on the cameras, each set up with wireless transmitters.

The total cost for the cameras, $20,000, was already allocated in the city budget. The city council unanimously approved the installation of the cameras at a meeting last month.

The park was also closed for six weeks this spring for extensive repairs of the vandalism on the park structures.

The city plans to work on a different section this fall with estimates of the repairs around $6,000, which is already in the budget under park maintenance.

The cameras are ready to go, pending approval from Rocky Mountain Power to place an antenna on one of the city’s light poles.

 

Hidden spy cameras are becoming more popular than ever before. Part of the reason is because they have become more inexpensive and much easier to use and hook up.

A hidden spy camera is simply a board camera hidden inside a common household or office item making it impossible to know you are being recorded. Some have built in DVR’s. Almost all are actual working products to carry out the deception.

These are very specialized products and you don’t find them on every street corner. As a matter of fact you can hardly find them on any street corner.

The best place to find them is online under ‘spy cameras’ or ‘hidden spy cameras’. Then decide which distributor is going to be able to answer your questions and give you good customer service.

Traffic violations continue to be frequent in the capital as on average 350 persons are caught flouting traffic rules every day.

The state government is considering setting up a surveillance system in the city. Moreover, it will also keep a tab on criminals and help the police check crime rate in the city. The city will come under a single network.

The surveillance cameras would be installed at 83 places across the city. A total of 49 traffic intersections will come under the surveillance vigil. Apart from this cameras would also be installed at sensitive zones and places of large gathering. The Ernst and Young have prepared the detailed project report.

Senior police officials said that as the camera cost has come down, the expenditure on installing the cameras will come down by Rs 5 to Rs 6 crore.

The city will be divided into six zones. In each zone, a BTS (base transceiver system) would be set up. Each BTS will be connected to specific number of cameras. Once the cameras capture the images, it would send those to the BTS through wire system. The BTS will immediately transmit the images to the police control room and the police commissioner’s office. A video wall will be installed there to screen the pictures. It will also be connected to the modern control room.

Detectives have released surveillance footage of armed raiders who tried to rob a Leeds bank.

As reported in the YEP, the would-be bank robbers struck in Horsforth on Tuesday morning.

Police are now appealing for witnesses and have released surveillance images in a bid to track down the culprits.

The pair, who is believed to have been carrying a weapon, was unable to enter the bank after repeatedly trying to force open the main door by hand.

They then escaped in a car being driven by an accomplice which police investigating the incident believe may have been spotted arriving at the scene moments before the attempted robbery.

Yesterday police who had been called to the scene taped off the area surrounding the bank as investigations were carried out.

No staff or customers were hurt in the course of the attempted raid.

A good surveillance system may cost you a lot, however, there are a few different options to help you save on costs and get the most out of your hard earned cash.

Installation will cost you a lot when investing in a surveillance system. So try your best to install it yourself instead of hiring someone and paying them. This can prove very cost effective when faced with a tight budget, and there are plenty of forums and groups online that can help make the installation even easier.

When building your surveillance system; you may have grandiose ideas of a high tech surveillance system with all the bells and whistles. This may be the eventual goal, but if you’re on a tight budget it would be wise to start small with the more basic and necessary components and work your way up.

Most people will gravitate directly towards the more popular and visible brands of equipment such as Samsung or Sony. While these brands may be high quality; they also come with a higher base price just for their premium name.

By doing a little research at places such as CCTV forums or other surveillance equipment blogs and forums; you may be able to find a comparable and possibly better product provided by an off-brand manufacturer at a lower price point.

Additionally you can save money by ordering your products far enough in advance that standard ground shipping can be used. In fact some surveillance equipment providers offer FREE ground shipping.

Saturday night marked two weeks since anyone had seen or heard from Kerran Natalee Baker.

The 25-year-old Jamaican nurse was last spotted on a surveillance camera around 7pm Saturday, 30 July, leaving the airport Fosters grocery store.

Her purse and some grocery bags she brought home with her from the store were found lying on the counter of her Bodden Town home nearly a day later by a friend.

Police said it appeared Ms Baker had been making a meal that night and had plans to have dinner with another person.

Royal Cayman Islands Police Service Superintendent Marlon Bodden said Friday that detectives had completed some enquiries along those lines.

Police said those enquiries were conducted early on, within the first few days of the investigation, and have provided little clarity in determining what might have happened to Ms Baker the night she vanished.

Mr. Bodden said police have also “gotten to the bottom” of an enquiry that involved a call for cable service at Ms Baker’s Bodden Town home where a man had apparently picked up the phone at her residence. He said “nothing sinister” was revealed in that line of questioning.

RCIPS officers continue to review hours of surveilalnce footage and are reassessing the case to determine if any further searches of Grand Cayman are needed. Mr. Bodden said police would only perform searches of certain areas if specific information came to light that might lead to new clues in 
the case.

Car DVR is the new generation of driving recording systems. The compact Car black box camera simply sits on your dashboard or attaches to your windscreen and powers from

your cigarette lighter to record and store data for any sudden shock movements your vehicle is subjected to. Car video recorder is small Car DVR equipment that usually

used in cars or hiding place to monitor driving conditions and provide all in car security you could need.

Now car DVR has become more and more multi-functional in order to meet people’s different needs. Not only acting as a car monitor but also providing entertainment to the user. Some are designed with convenient dimensions, which can see any sharp braking, rapid acceleration, excessive cornering or sudden impact and save a time period from 10 seconds before the event to 20 after! Then you will be able to review it as often as needed. It’s really a good thing. On the other hand, the price of it keeps falling, more and more people can afford it.

Even though strobe lights are devices used for production of regular flashes of light, they now have many uses in scientific research centers, in entertainment clubs to create an illusion of motion and in a alarm systems due to their ability to flash up to hundreds of times per second.

Some other sectors such as administrative sectors also use strobe lights particularly for emergency and law enforcement vehicles. There are many types of strobe lights used in emergency vehicles. Examples include beacon lights, which are super bright rotating warning bulbs that produce eight candlepower magnified by chrome reflectors.

There are many benefits for using strobe lights particularly when it comes to emergency vehicles. Firstly, they are used as alarm lights in emergency vehicles, fire trucks and police vehicles. In police cars, the lights are used to emit flashlights when the police officers are pursuing suspects on their way to crime scenes. Strobe lights help warn other passengers that a chase is underway.

Secondly, these lights are used as decorations in emergency vehicles. Strobes fitted for decoration are used off the roads and normally use LED or halogen and come fitted with a control box to change the flash frequencies and flash patterns for decorative effect.

Thirdly, emergency lights are used on unmarked police cars. Police unmarked vehicles are ordinary vehicles used by undercover agents. The lights may be attached to the roofs of cars in order to warn other road users during a police chase.

Strobe lights especially the USCG approved xenon strobes are also important for emergency service personnel since they can be used as safety and security accessories in providing dependable rescue services for lost campers and hikers making them suitable for emergencies.

 

Detectives reviewing the investigation into the disappearance of South African born Donovan, of Blackthorn Mews in Pewsham, are making a fresh appeal to the public for information with more than 70 surveillance images showing individuals and vehicles they want to identify.

The surveillance images are on the Wiltshire Police website and officers will be distributing leaflets and talking to people living in and around the Pewsham estate where Donovan lived to raise awareness of the appeal.

The surveillance footage is from The Old Lane pub and shows a number of people and vehicles that police want to identify. The surveillance footage was taken between 9am and 11am on the day Donovan was last seen.

Officers have previously viewed and released footage from the pub surveillance camera, but are releasing further images as part of a wider appeal.

Chinese government has massively expanded its video surveillance network into supermarkets, schoolrooms, university classrooms, malls – and, in a special post-modern twist, into theaters and cinemas. Over 5 million cameras have been installed throughout the country, and the Chinese government’s video surveillance team has grown to over 4,000 watchers.

CCTV performance artist and filmmaker Paola Baretto Leblanc hasn’t commented at all, but some have speculated that Leblanc may be considering an anniversary performance installation of Composition for Video Surveillance Circuit, to commemorate such a monumentally creepy achievement.

And rumours are aswirl about a reunion tour by the much loved Surveillance Camera Players of New York to some of the more densely surveillance regions of China.  For example, in the Furong district, in the city of Changsha, there is reportedly one video camera for every 10 inhabitants, taking us closer and closer to that ever elusive but enviable goal of one camera for one citizen.

Not everyone is happy about the new cameras.  One involved person who wanted his name withheld so that his comments couldn’t later be used to shame him, worried about the temptation for surveillance camera activists to sell out.  With so many cameras, he said, what were once small state-security CCTV networks were being transformed into mass media.

Naturally, Western governments are watching closely through their own surveillance camera networks and no doubt feeling the sting and social stigma of having smaller CCTV networks than their global cousins.