Viseum UK’s Safe City Security Initiative
Viseum’s safe city report shows how one camera that sees every direction at once changes the security of a city. It describes a security industry shake-up, and terrorism that could have been avoided. Read the Indian perspective on safe cities.
One control room, then a whole country
An operator works an alert through a guided procedure. Control rooms, city masters and a national centre then link up, with a hot backup at every level.
Protecting a whole border
Towers, patrols and command control protect a whole border, one track per object, from the first detection to the patrol's response.
Viseum UK leads a Safe Cities Report. The report reflects today’s security climate. Viseum issued it a short time after announcing its lead in the International Smart City Initiative. The world must now prepare for national security risks that most of us assume “would not happen to us”. Recent terrorism in the global news has changed this. Governments now accept that “this could happen to any of us, anywhere and at any time”.

This change in government planning for Public Safety is what Viseum UK has prepared for since 2000. Put simply, its founder knew that procuring the cheapest video surveillance cameras and installing them in as many places as possible simply did not work. This strategy made things worse. It has proved to be severely flawed. Too many standard video surveillance cameras need too many skilled people to watch and use them. Too many criminals already know this and disregard them. Viseum UK’s business mission set out to make us all aware of these undeniable facts:
- Security has not been a priority for the world’s Public Safety city infrastructure projects. The budget for security is rarely planned. The main contractor is then left to install the cheapest security products.
- Budget limits shape what gets bought. Most surveillance cameras in use around the world are of poor quality. They are built to inadequate standards.
Viseum UK is known for introducing Disruptive Technology. Its surveillance cameras and Software Technology Services disrupt and deter criminals. They are also changing how the security industry develops commercially. Buying cultures vary from region to region. Until now, brand names and vendor relationships often mattered more than performance. The actual reliability of a security solution came second. Demonstrations of Viseum solutions show customers how much ground a single camera covers, and where their present arrangements leave gaps. This message, central to Viseum’s Safe City Concept, reaches Viseum UK customers worldwide. It travels through a growing network of trusted government security advisers. Where appropriate, UK Government representatives support this work.
The report shows the results of the International Safe City Initiative. It has started to reduce financial losses from crime and disorder. It has also cut security operating costs. It has begun to prevent incidents with catastrophic consequences.
The Viseum Safe City Report
Viseum produces a safe city report that reveals how unsafe we are.
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Stuart Thompson, President of the Viseum UK Group and CEO of Viseum International Limited, says, “Tell us about any support our partners need in any country. Tell us about any suggestion they have, and we will take this forward with UK Government support.”
- Today, the biggest risk we all face is crime and terrorism. Viseum cameras find, fix and follow incidents in the crowded places where they strike.
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- Places where many people gather are targets for crime, disorder and mass killings.
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Viseum UK manages a growing number of Safe City projects worldwide. These countries have already judged their security risks to be unacceptably high. Central to this is Viseum Red Team Services. These services identify ways in which a country’s security defences could be penetrated. Hand-in-hand with this are the Viseum Blue Team Services. These put the appropriate countermeasures in place for each customer’s security and surveillance design.
Britain’s Largest Police Force said, “In today’s regime of restricted budgets, the ability to manage a city’s crime trends, and undertake its continuous monitoring without the cost of continuous staffing, is extremely attractive.”
- The Safe City concept gives a government one plan for protecting its people, its roads and its critical assets.
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- Every surveillance camera installation we deliver follows one internationally regulated process. First, we survey the site and agree measurable security goals.
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