Lawyers involved in a case where a security guard was not entitled to comfort breaks described the decision as "ground-breaking". A tribunal has ruled that the security industry is not exempt from Working Time Regulations, and its workers should be allowed short breaks at least.
Month: October 2010
Digital camera surveillance can boost your car parking security
Neighbourhood Insp Lisa Musgrove, of the Sunderland Neighbourhood Policing Team, commented that a robbery at a bookmakers in Sunderland was an isolated incident. She said: “Thankfully the member of staff was not seriously injured.
Reserve your car space with a secure parking post
A unique car park has come to the United Kingdom. The amazing facility has opened in the midlands, and is the first car park in the UK that dispenses with having to finding a space. The car goes into a ‘transfer garage’, the driver exits, then the vehicle is lowered into the three-storey car park. When the driver wants the car back they simply swipe a special key fob. The vehicle is then collected and lifted back up to the garage.
Car park barriers require no routine maintenance
The government has rejected claims that re-offending rates will go up if emergency deficit busting measures continue on their course. The Probation Service said there will be more victims of crime if "draconian" public spending cuts of 25 per cent go ahead in this autumn’s spending review. However, the government has said there is no evidence that cuts to the Probation Service would lead to an increase in crime.
Document scanning technology can be linked to barrier system
The public has been told to be on their guard about rogue roofing companies following problems with cold-callers in the Welsh county of Radnorshire. The pushy traders have been knocking on the doors of vulnerable people, said Powys Community Safety Partnership.
Turnstiles ideal for protecting and raising revenue for public toilets
An explosion in some public toilets at Weston-super-Mare is being looked into by police. The authorities were alerted when residents heard the bang around the car park on the resort’s beach front in Beach Road. Avon Fire and Rescue Service sent two crews to the scene, but by the time they got there no fires were burning. A spokesman said that the building suffered extensive damage.
Lite ID Card system produces badges to stop false identity use
A woman used a forged passport for seven years before being caught. Qamar Yasmeen went on to gain a drivers licence and find work under a false name after stealing an identity. Yasmeen was imprisoned, while investigators said the deception had devastating consequences on the victim, who has not been named. In 2007, Yasmeen travelled to Pakistan and got married using her victim’s name, sponsoring her husband so that he could return with her to the UK.
Camera surveillance can be added to barrier network
Calls have come for CCTV and other measures to make a graveyard more secure after police are stressing they are not linking the two thefts from the Eastfield Cemetery in Peterborough. Emma Smith (25) and her family, who visit the Cambridgeshire cemetery nearly every day, had been left heartbroken when they found that two angels had been taken from the grave of her brother.
Our car park surveillance engineers are all security vetted
Pressure group Big Brother Watch is calling for snooping powers designed to combat terrorism to be removed from councils. The controversial methods have been used by councils to catch rogue traders and people suspected of misusing disabled parking permits. For example, Fareham Borough Council has conducted 76 secret surveillance operations since 2008, spying on suspected cases of tipping trade waste, among others.