Benefits of CCTV

What will cctv do for you?

There are very many reasons why a cctv system can help you and your business. Listed below are examples of how cctv systems have helped our customers.

1. Security and Surveillance.

You really do need eyes in the back of your head these days. Strategically placed cameras can be both monitored and recorded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Digital recorders can record all your cameras for up to 3 months or even more if you need it. A properly designed cctv system provides an excellent deterrent against any would be thief. Remote monitored systems allow you or a manned guarding company to watch over your premises from anywhere in the world.

2. To reduce shrinkage and increase

profits by £10,000

A properly designed cctv system provides a huge deterrent against theft and can reduce theft or shrinkage from an average of 2.7 % to less than 0.7% percent in the retail environment. In a typical convenience store with a turnover of £10,000 per week this equates to a savings of about £10,000 a year.

3. To allow you to work more efficiently

Although they didn't originally consider it very important many of our clients say to us that one of the major benefits of their cctv system is the ability to see what is going on throughout their business from their own office or desk. This can simply save them hours of their own time every day and allow them to get along with their own work rather than spending a lot of their time checking up on everyone else.

4. Control your staff and save thousands

Do you know what your staff are doing? Do you know what time they arrive and leave, what time they take off for cigarette breaks and how long they chat to their friends? With the minimum wage and increased national insurance payments your staff are costing you at least £6 per hour. You need to ensure they are working efficiently at all times. A cctv system will enable you to check what your staff are doing quickly and easily both when you are there and when you are away. By reorganizing your staff to work more efficiently you could save yourself thousands of pounds a year.

5. Health and safety; save on your insurance premiums

If you have a play area with slides, ball pool etc then a cctv system is a must. In almost every instance where a child or parent is hurt they blame you and in today's compensation culture the claim to your insurance company soon follows .The result is that next year your premium goes up. A properly designed cctv system will record what actually happened. Did the child come down the slide holding their parents hand? Did the child come down head first? Simply showing the cctv recording of what actually happened to the parent will in most cases stop them from making a claim. A properly designed cctv system can be used to demonstrate to the Health and Safety executive that you complied with their requirements.

6. Home Security

Cctv systems are now very affordable for the home costing only £399 plus vat. A single camera system will allow you to record everyone coming to your house. Connect it to your broadband and you can view your house across the internet. Having a few cameras on your holiday home will allow you to check up on it on a regular basis simply and easily.

With the rising price of fuel the theft of heating oil is becoming more and more common. Thieves simply turn up with a van and a hose and pump the oil from your tank costing you hundreds of pounds. We have also heard of thieves lifting the complete tank on to the back of a lorry. The cost of the tank and oil costing you about £2000. A simple cctv system will act as a great deterrent.