Public bodies, especially Local Authorities, NHS Trusts and Higher Education establishments, are under constant pressure to minimise expenditure, yet they remain keen to provide wide scale monitored CCTV coverage. This is seen as a non essential function, and hence many bodies would be keen to find a way to do this differently whilst maintaining high quality service provision, and evidential complaint data.

BT now have a solution which includes the building, the control room equipment and the staff (which could be TUPEd from existing operations). The sale could include the CCTV elements such as access and cameras as required and would be offered as a matrix for the customer to choose the elements they need for their requirements.

Key client benefits are:

• Reducing costs
• Higher quality service provision leading to improved safety for citizens and employees, reduce crime, and increased conviction rates
• Removing what may be seen an important but 'non-core' activity from the LA
• Providing access to the latest innovations and skilled resources
• Potential to create a revenue stream through on-sell of services to other organisations.