Facewatch and Littoralis report that they are working together on an integrated business crime service. The two companies are integrating DISC, Littoralis’ online platform for information sharing between groups such as BCRPs (business crime reduction partnerships) and BIDs (business improvment districts) and Facewatch’s crime reporting and CCTV analytics system.
Simon Gordon, chairman of Facewatch said: “DISC has proved itself as the leading online platform for crime-reduction partnerships and we believe that it will be significantly enhanced by integration with Facewatch’s Crime Reporting System. Together we can improve our support to the Police in managing low-level crime and more importantly help businesses and communities in the prevention of crime.”
And Charlie Newman, CEO of Littoralis said: “Facewatch has proved itself to be the leading innovator in the use of CCTV for evidential purposes and has built a tremendous Crime Reporting System. We believe that providing access to this capability through our network of DISC users will enhance their ability to serve communities in reducing low-level crime and anti-social behaviour.”
The Facewatch/DISC service is being developed and is scheduled to be generally available from June 2014. Products from both companies will continue to be available independently, but Facewatch and Littoralis add that they will work together in promoting the integrated product.
About Facewatch
A UK online crime reporting platform, it enables businesses, public and police to share images for the prevention of crime and by submitting CCTV evidence and witness statements to the police to help solve crimes. The system now contains over 18,000 images and 7,800 business premises and was started in March 2010. For more visit www.facewatch.co.uk
About Littoralis
Littoralis launched its information-sharing system for crime reduction in 2010. DISC (Database and Intranet for Safer Communities) is for administrators of crime reduction partnerships to manage their partnerships’ community safety data. Visit www.littoralis.com
