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Securicorp Surveillance Social Impact: what are the key issues for crime that need to be identified and how can the technology we have be used to be effective?
January 2013 by Marc Jacob
For this year Securicorp Components will be progress with its policy of looking at social issues and the implementation of monitoring, data capture and data mining technology to serve the wider community. Securicorp has dealt with surveillance for many years and focused on cameras only. During 2012 we have worked with partners who are involved in other data capture through manual entry, RFID and, soon to be included, NFC (Near Field Communications).
Technology has proved to improve business, through supply chain logistics and customer management. Surveillance has been a deficit preventing tool which mainly has acted as a deterrent to prevent the crime from taking place or capturing the crime and using it for evidence. This has been effective and the general consensus is proven due to the increasing demand for CCTV.
However, the use of the technology is not to measure the ills of the world but should be to work out why an individual would do something and risk capture and sometimes injury (or worse) to perpetrate a crime. By observation we learn and then can act to make the improvements and to assist people.
Convicted criminals provide the best information on the behaviour of this mindset and a simple background profile of each person will identify a pattern and perhaps a reason. Drug users in prisons are usually on class A drugs which are more addictive and un-inhibiting. Upon release this will be a driving force for criminal behaviour and without rehab (during the sentence and / or after) there is little chance that this will stop.
Therefore, we will examine the upfront cost and the cost of the criminal behaviour to assess the actual impact. While observing Social Media from the police twitter accounts, neighbourhood watch websites, MIND and other drug rehabilitation related websites we have found trends and patterns which expert observers also have written about. This examination will also include valuable asset tracking to assess vehicle theft, home robberies and other fraud related crime which perhaps is not so prominent or in such how volume but still adds to inefficiencies and wastage. Technology needs to follow social requirements rather than the other way around.
