Mobile CCTV has dual purpose

The vehicle allows the London Borough of Waltham Forest to target roads that suffer from traffic congestion and parking violations and urban areas not covered by fixed CCTV installations.

The community safety vehicle is a joint initiative by the borough, the Metropolitan Police and NCP, the parking contractor.

It is typically used during the day by NCP for traffic enforcement and in the evening and during special events by the police for surveillance operations. On a typical day it can detect up to 100 traffic violations that result in fixed penalty charges.

Five fixed cameras and two Forward Vision Mic cameras are mounted on a six metre hydraulic mast. An ANPR system connects to the police national computer for live verification.

Two onboard operators view images via IndigoVision Control Center’s IP video and alarm management software.

Recordings are made on an onboard Indigovision NVR with hot swappable hard drives and the vehicle is supported and maintained by the company’s local partner, Clearview Communications.

Video from the hard drives is saved and analysed using another Control Center workstation at the council offices.

Encryption and watermarking ensures that video exported for evidence is tamper proof.

The vehicle’s analogue cameras are connected to an Indigovision 8000 transmitter/receiver which converts the feed for transmission over the onboard IP network. The 8000 can also run analytics such as a “virtual tripwire” that alerts the operator when a vehicle goes into a bus lane.

Mario Demetriou, the borough’s anti social behaviour manager, said the Control Center software “makes the job of analysing the video easy, both onboard the vehicle and back at our editing suite.”

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