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The Premier Waste crane driver, who thought the youth was wielding a real AK47, radioed company director Frank Ridley immediately.
Ridley then used the facility’s remotely-monitored CCTV system to take a closer look at the scene before alerting Greater Manchester Police.
The CCTV system, supplied by RemGuard, includes Dennard 2060 domes and detectors placed strategically around the site. These are then linked to RemGuard’s BS8418-compliant remote video response centre (RVRC) by specialised RemVu Aquila transmission equipment.
This allows RemGuard’s operators to see what is happening, call up on-screen plans of Premier Waste’s site and even issue verbal warnings to intruders over on-site speakers. If necessary the RVRC operators can alert the police who, as the incident is confirmed visually, should provide a priority response.
According to Ridley, RemGuard operators were invaluable in catching the troublemaker and his accomplice.
“They were able to supply images of the youths which we presented to the police,” he said.
“The footage helped to bring about the arrest of the suspects with a 15-year old given a final warning and a 17-year old a community order.
“Although it turned out that the AK47 was a replica there was no way of us knowing this at the time. It was certainly good to have RemGuard’s help and advice to turn to for what seemed on the face of it to be a much more serious event.”
He added that the site had experienced problems with youths trying to hotwire vehicles, but that the CCTV system had stopped this kind of incident completely.
Kerry Jones, customer services manager at RemGuard Visual Management said, “We are delighted with the positive impact that our service has had on security levels at Premier Waste”.
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CCTV footage helps catch ‘AK47’ youthThe Premier Waste crane driver, who thought the youth was wielding a real AK47, radioed company director Frank Ridley immediately. […]
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