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Evidence Submission Manager (ESM)

 

ESM provides the management and database tools to maintain and demonstrate compliance with the Data Protection Act in relation to surveillance systems. It contains all the features of NetWatch ViEWS, produces video evidence on CD or DVD media and provides a full audit trail of all actions and processes undertaken up to the point of release of the media to third parties.

 

ESM produces all release forms, receipts, CD labels and management reports up to, and including closure of the incident where this is appropriate.

ESM is an enhanced version of NetWatch ViEWS and incorporates all the ViEWS basic and optional functions. Please refer to the separate ViEWS data sheet for more details.

 

 

 

 

The above shows a video segment being downloaded from an online CIS to the Evidence Submission Manager server.

 

 

 

Screen review of an Evidence Report that will contain a full audit trail of every action during the extraction of evidence from the NetWatch system. This report is written to the media disk along with the video sequences

Details from the Evidence Report showing the integrity of the process for possible scrutiny in court:

 

 

 

Page 1 of 5

 

Category:

Robbery

Requested by:

Warner, David, PC4324

Organisation:

Blackpool Council

Address:

 

Telephone:

 

Mobile:

 

Incident Description:

Copper Cable theft from secure area Kings Depot

Subject Description:

 

Notes:

 

Timeline: 05/02/2007                 12:29:43

Incident record created by operator Peter Vaughan

12:40:02

Session started by operator Peter Vaughan Accompanied by Smith, John, Mr, 12458

12:47:35

Created video Suspicious men in secure yard

12:50:52

Created and downloaded still image

Suspect 1 and 2

12:52:40

Session ended

 

ESM Benefits:

·         Structured procedure for compliance with the Data Protection Act

·         Structured and documented process for exporting video evidence

·         Speeds the evidence review process

·         Simplifies video data collection and re-distribution

·         Text logs and video data are time synchronised improving the audit process

·         Single point data management reduces risk of errors

·         Multiple camera and simultaneous multi-stream video enable time synchronized evidence review

·         Printable media writer included in the package - guarantees compatibility and minimum processing time

 

 

 

Media:

·         DVD or CD media can be used.

·         The date and unique serial number are printed in numeric and barcode formats

·         Corporate logo etc. can be printed on disk

 

ESM Functions:

·    Incident request logging - form completion of: who made a request for video data, when the request was made and the reason it was requested

·    Video segment & still image capture review and download from real-time CIS & VDS servers to the ESM server

·    Control of the Surveillance Control Station and Replay Software time synchronised to database record

·    All review activity is recorded time / date along with operator and any third party reviewer present.

·    Expiry warning for video evidence that has not been downloaded from the real-time system

·    Management reports include:

·     Incident involvement time by operator, total time expended by all by operators on an incident

·     Total time involved on incident servicing by department

·     Total number of media produced per incident in period

·     Total number produced by the department

·      Provision for handheld bar code scanner increasing the speed of incident data retrieval

 

 

 

·    Incident evidence management:

·         Booking in returned evidence and the location of the evidence

·     A log of when the evidence is destroyed, and / or when system evidence and incidents are closed.

·    Generation of media for incident evidence:

·     Comprehensive report detailing a complete audit trail of all activity involved including any still images extracted from the system

·     Exported video segments retained in original codec and format as sub-master material

·     The media contains an installable report viewer

·     Pass-word protected MS Word format reports

·     Pass-word protected NetWatch Video Replay Software for video segment replay

·    Media label and receipt is generated automatically when media is produced by the system each with unique serial number

·    Corporate logo's and definable report styles supported

 

 

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