Remploy, the UK provider of employment for disabled people, offers CCTV monitoring services to councils and the police.
Remploy, the UK provider of employment for disabled people, including CCTV monitoring services to councils and the police has gained management contracts with three local authorities: Preston, Herefordshire and East Dumbartonshire. In each case the appointment goes alongside an expansion and improvement of the monitoring service; new cameras and control rooms. Remploy already supplies more than 200 CCTV operatives to police and local authorities from Clydebank to Cornwall. Tom Smith, Glasgow-based manager of Remploy’s CCTV services, said: ‘We are delighted to share our expertise with these authorities who are committed to continuous improvement of their services. We are talking to a growing number about providing them with not just excellent monitoring personnel but also a comprehensive package of management services, which means we run the operation for them.’ Jenny Goldsbury, Directorate Support Manager for the Herefordshire Council, said ‘This initiative will result in more pro-active monitoring of our town centres and this will enable us to anticipate problems and reassure people about their safety and security. We have turned to Remploy mainly because of their proven track record in the management of CCTV services elsewhere in the UK. Our partnership with Remploy also demonstrates Herefordshire’s commitment to employing disabled people in positions of responsibility’.
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In Preston, Remploy is now to provide and manage a team of five people, all disabled, who work alongside police in their control room to operate a round-the-clock monitoring service for the first time. In Herefordshire, a new control facility ‘ jointly funded by the council and police ‘ will provide active monitoring and recording facilities for the existing cameras in Hereford, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. Work is also underway to find an affordable way of connecting the cameras in Ledbury to the new control room. In East Dumbartonshire Remploy is taking over the monitoring of CCTV in four towns, to mean 24 hour coverage in the centres of Lenzie, Bishopbriggs, Milngavie and Kirkintilloch. Remploy has recently supplied new staff to the Highlands Council to enable it to extend monitoring to Fort William and Tain.
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About Remploy
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Remploy was founded in 1945 to provide employment for disabled people. It is the largest single supplier to the Government’s Workstep programme which progresses disabled people into jobs. Last year over 2,000 people trained by Remploy progressed into employment with other companies and organisations. It supports over 4,000 people in the employment of other organisations. Remploy operates over 80 factories employing 6,000 people throughout the UK which supply a range of products ranging from high grade industrial clothing for use by fire services and the military to electronic applications for mobile telephones and monitoring equipment and components for the motor industry.
