Watch surveillance feeds on iPhone

Reference document: HERE.

This technology is changing how security professionals can view security cam video feeds. Instead of being limited to a dispatcher or security-booth for viewing, every guard onsite could have access to live security cam feeds. Via iPhones.

I think having all guards with iPhones equipped to view all local building security cam feeds would be great for enhancing the security team's intelligence gathering and ability to respond to dynamic situations. Still, someone needs to be designated "watcher", sitting at a booth and watching traditional monitors.

File this under security team agility.

crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com

I write web applications computer programs sometimes as a job and most of the time for fun. The following is a crime fighting tool I wrote a few months ago.
-> http://crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com/

The idea is simple: a "user" knows of some crime or suspicious behavior. Let's say they have surveillance footage related to the incident, and have uploaded the video to Youtube. Also, they know the address of the incident.
They would go to crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com, login in with their Google username, and post 1) address 2) link to Youtube video 3) a description and info of the incident.

Crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com has nothing useful on it as of now. That's because I wrote the cool software, but don't have any crime incidents to report. The material currently up there are mere examples to show the software in action. What's needed are real users with real incidents to post on the site. Hopefully someone reading this gets an interest and posts something. Web 2.0 tools such as this are only powerful once a critical mass of users use it.

If you look at crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com and say "wow, thats an ugly interface, it could be designed so much better", then I am prepared to accept your criticism. I wrote the core software, which works well enough, but waiting on users to show up to give me feedback and to test the software under a heavier load.

IFPO Articles and Reports

International Foundation of Protection Officers website has a library of articles at http://www.ifpo.org/articles/index.html. I've read maybe 25 percent of them, and the depth of the material varies. Some are barely a nugget of information, others are an actual help and illuminate a topic.

To help get started on the more useful content, below are articles I found informative:

• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its Impact on Corporate Security Departments.


• Planning for Effective Media Relations During a Critical Incident.

More info: Sarbanes-Oxley Act