The control room is in Middleton and the response vans work across Greater Manchester every night, so the North West is our doorstep. Monitored CCTV and towers go anywhere in the UK, because wherever the camera stands, the feed comes back to the same room.
Middleton is where the control room is, so a survey, a tower drop or a camera move here happens the same day rather than getting booked in..
Manchester city centre sites are tight, public facing and rarely have a spare metre for a compound, so the cover has to be planned around the hoarding line rather than the plot..
Salford is one of the busiest development patches in the North West and it is ten minutes from the control room, so it is territory we are on constantly..
Rochdale is a few minutes up the road and a lot of the work there is old mill buildings, which means big empty footprints and a lot of ways in..
Oldham is minutes from the Middleton base and covers everything from town centre redevelopment to housing on the moor edge..
Bury is a straight run from Middleton and the mix there is commercial units and estates rather than tower blocks, which changes what the right cover looks like..
Bolton is regular territory for the response vans and has enough large open plots that towers do more work there than fixed cameras..
Stockport town centre has been under continuous redevelopment for years and the sites there sit right up against the public, which puts the emphasis on access control..
Trafford Park is one of the biggest industrial estates in Europe and the yards, units and plant compounds there are a different security problem to a housing plot..
Wigan sits on the motorway corridor, and sites with quick access to the M6 attract people who are in and out and away in fifteen minutes..
Warrington sits between the M6 and the M62, so the distribution parks there are big, open and easy to reach from a motorway junction in either direction..
Liverpool is an hour west and we cover it regularly, mostly city centre residential and student schemes where the site is surrounded by people at all hours..
Preston and the surrounding Lancashire towns are steady work for the towers, because a lot of it is large housing land with no power on it for the first six months..
Chester work is mostly inside the walls, where hoarding has to look presentable, cameras have to be sited sympathetically and everything is done under more scrutiny than usual..
Leeds is over the tops and we work there regularly, including the groundworks sites where K9 units do more than a static officer ever could..
Sheffield is the far side of the Peak from us, and the monitored camera and tower work there runs exactly as it does at home because the feed comes back to the same room..