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. Monitored CCTV, solar towers, SIA licensed guards, K9 handlers, mobile patrols and 24 hour response across Sheffield and the S1 postcodes around it.
Sheffield city centre sites are hemmed in by the public on every side, with no room for a compound, hoarding straight onto a footway and material stacked wherever it will fit, so the cover has to be built around sight lines and access points rather than around a fence line. In practice most of what we are asked for around Sheffield is monitored CCTV, with everything else on the list available alongside it.
Ultra HD analytic cameras supplied and installed free of charge, feeding a control room in Middleton that is staffed around the clock.
A rapid deploy tower that turns up on a trailer, sets its own feet, raises the mast and starts watching the same day.
SIA licensed officers on site, on shift, doing the job properly: controlling who comes through the gate, signing deliveries in, walking the site to a pattern that cannot be predicted from the fence line, and logging every one of it.
Licensed handlers working with trained general purpose security dogs, on static shifts or as a patrolling unit.
A marked unit visiting your site through the night at times that change every night, checking the perimeter, the gates, the stores, the plant and the cabins, and reporting on every visit.
Detection is only worth something if it ends with a person turning up.
Door entry and gate access systems designed, installed and maintained: video and audio intercoms, fob and keypad entry, automated gates and barriers.
SIA licensed close protection officers for individuals who need discreet, competent cover: a director dealing with a hostile situation, a visitor to a difficult location, an event where somebody needs to be looked after properly, or a period where a specific threat has been made.
Booked visits to your home or business while you are away, at times that vary, by a licensed officer who actually walks round the property.
Wireless site fire alarm systems, supplied, positioned and linked so that one call point sets every unit on the site sounding.
Heras panel fencing, solid hoarding and gates, delivered, installed and taken away again at the end of the job.
Security for temporary works: small projects, street works and highway works.
Across Sheffield (S1) it is mostly monitored CCTV, tower cover and response on city centre and student residential schemes. Sheffield city centre sites are hemmed in by the public on every side, with no room for a compound, hoarding straight onto a footway and material stacked wherever it will fit, so the cover has to be built around sight lines and access points rather than around a fence line. What the right package is comes out of a free site survey rather than a phone call, because the plot, the sight lines and the way the job is phased decide most of it.
No, it is in the price. Sheffield is roughly 51 km from the control room in Middleton, well inside the patch the response vans work as a matter of course. Monitoring is the same wherever the camera is standing, because the feed comes back to the same room. Where distance genuinely changes what we can promise is on response times, and we will tell you that at the survey rather than after you have signed something.
Yes. 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. The control room is in Middleton and the response units work across Greater Manchester every night, so Sheffield is well inside normal territory. Monitored cameras and towers we deploy UK wide, because the feed lands in the same room wherever the camera goes up.
Quite a lot. A site in Sheffield usually has no perimeter to speak of beyond the hoarding, the public are the other side of it, and there is nowhere to put a tower. That pushes the cover towards fixed analytic cameras mounted on the structure and the hoarding, a gate that is properly controlled during working hours, and monitoring that can tell the difference between somebody walking past at midnight and somebody stopping at a gate. Access control tends to be the bigger risk here: things go missing through the gate in daylight far more often than over a hoarding at night.
Quickly. A solar tower can be towed on, raised and live to the control room in about an hour, so a site that has been hit on a Thursday can be watched on Thursday night. Fixed cameras on a structure take longer to install properly, usually part of a day. Guards and K9 units come down to who is available, and that is an honest yes or no on the phone rather than a maybe. Call and tell us what has happened and you will get a straight answer on what we can have on site tonight.
Yes, and there is nothing attached to it. Somebody comes out to Sheffield, walks the plot, looks at the boundary, the access points, the sight lines and where the plant and materials are going to sit, then puts a written proposal to you. Nothing gets installed and nothing is chargeable until you have seen that and said yes.
Yes, and plenty of sites do exactly that. Everything runs month to month, so the cover can follow the programme: monitored cameras from the start, a K9 unit or a static officer for the phase where the most valuable plant is standing, extra towers when the plot opens up, and the lot removed at handover. You are not locked into a level of cover you agreed before the job had even started.