Security firms 2020 Vision Systems, MEL Secure Systems and Dedicated Micros were all involved in providing protection during this summer's G8 summit at Gleneagles.

The £180,000 CCTV systems provided by 2020 vision systems was completed in 2004, and routes all of the CCTV under the jurisdiction of the Lothian and Borders Police into one Force Communications Centre (FCC).

Over 45 specialists manned the workstation during the summit, where they were able to gain direct access and control of any CCTV camera in the region and receive real time images from them.

Detective Sergeant Ian Lusk, Counter Terrorist Security Advisor for Lothian and Borders Police Force, said: "The new CCTV has enabled us to implement ANPR onto the system and further improve crime prevention and detection with a ring of steel for crime and terrorism." MEL Secure Systems provided rapid deployment cameras during the summit. The wireless CCTV solutions were deployed by the Scottish Police and Security Services to provide perimeter protection at the main conference, which addressed a wide range of international economic, political and social issues, as well as other associated sites.

The company's Jon Bateson said its Hawk range of cameras was used in both analogue and COFDM digital formats. "We are proud that we were selected for this prestigious high security event," he said.

Dedicated Micros delivered two of its RAID high capacity systems to Tayside Police for use during the summit.

The RAID units were used in the Police's custody suite at its District Headquarters in Perth for the duration of the summit.

These provided extra capacity for the secure storage of CCTV images of those being held, supplementing that offered by the hard disks on the Force's existing BX2 digital recorders.

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