Police endorse Forensic Video’s CCTV testing system

Story link: Police endorse Forensic Video’s CCTV testing system by Jan Harris

Forensic Video Analysis Group has launched a new service to test the quality and suitability of a CCTV system, and the service has been endorsed by North Wales Police.

The company believes that it is the first CCTV testing system to be approved by the police in this way.

The service assesses the suitability of a CCTV system against key criteria including:
• image quality,
• image accuracy,
• ease of presenting evidence in court and
• level of modification or compression added to original image.

Following the assessment, the CCTV is awarded either a Gold, Silver or Tested grade and a logo to display.

Forensic Video Analysis Group’s founders, James Davies and William Pratt, wanted to establish a national standard to help buyers select a CCTV system that they could be confident would provide footage of a good enough standard to be used as evidence in court.

They decided to develop the testing scheme after the changeover from tape systems to digital systems led to a degradation in image quality in some systems.