The Local Authority Annual CCTV Conference

In association with the Public Sector Managers’ Association (PCMA) 

Wednesday 4th July 2007
Local Government House, Smith Square, Westminster SW1 

This annual one-day conference for local authority CCTV Managers and Policy Officers comes at a time when the Home Office’s National CCTV Strategy Project is developing a central government view of local authority surveillance, the outcome of which will drive future funding of systems.

The conference examines the national strategy together with two other recent major reports on CCTV; the review of "effectiveness" (jointly commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Home Office) and a report commissioned for the Information Commissioner by the Surveillance Studies Network. The conference will look at the main issues raised in these reports and examine how they inform decisions on funding and the development of local authority CCTV networks.

In addition to examining the overarching framework in which local authority CCTV operates in 2007, the conference will update delegates on other key issues relevant to CCTV management. These include the development of standards together with case studies of innovative usage of CCTV systems (including the roll-out of “speaking” systems) and an examination of the use of CCTV in major incidents, focusing on both the 2006 London bombings and the serial murders in Ipswich.