Guardian readers may have recently seen an article focusing on one of ATEC's long running CCTV customers, Westminster City Council (WCC).                   

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/02/westminster-cctv-system-privacy

The Home Office, which funded the creation of the £1.25m facility, believes it to be a "best-practice example" on which the future of the UK 's public surveillance system should be modelled. The central London surveillance network has become so famed that more than 6,000 officials from 30 countries have come to learn lessons from the centre.

The Guardian online also has an extensive video interview with Dan Brown, Control Room Manager at WCC's control room who explains the process of monitoring for suspicious behaviour in the capital and how one of the world's largest CCTV networks operates.

WCC selected public space security systems specialist ATEC to cost-effectively support and maintain its system whilst achieving operational objectives. ATEC:

• Maintains 130 WCC CCTV cameras including the Oxford Street , Leicester Square and Belgravia areas
• Supports the monitoring and control suite in the heart of the City
• Maintains a variety of transmission services, digital recording, voice communications with Police and Wardens, as well as gate and barrier controls in Leicester Square
• Provides WCC with its ultra rapid response service: 24/7/365, an ATEC engineer is on the scene within one hour in an emergency
• Carried out the work within tight timescales and with minimum disturbance to the public

For more information on the solutions ATEC has provided Westmister City Council, please see the related news story – Full support for Westminster