Atlanta police want to make false alarms pay
Atlanta police responded to 65,000 burglar alarms last year, and they estimate nearly 62,000 of them were false. Burglar alarms cry wolf across the...
Video door phone market poised for growth
The $1.8 billion global door phone market is transitioning from audio to video technology, with video set to grow and account for 50 percent...
Philippines police to strictly implement Oro’s CCTV law
The implementation of the law requiring high-risk establishments to install closed-circuit televisions (CCTV) in the premises will strictly be implemented in Cagayan de Oro...
Regulation of private investigators to come into force in 2014
New British Home Office guidelines to regulate private investigators from 2014 will see the responsibility for issuing licenses fall under the remit of the...
Mini CCTV trial in Edinburgh to combat hate crime
A trial of mini CCTV cameras is being carried out in Edinburgh in an attempt to crack down on hate crimes in the Scottish...
Intellicheck Mobilisa TWIC readers get TSA’s nod
Intellicheck Mobilisa’s TWIC Reader Plus Models IM2610 and IM2620 have been approved by the Transportation Security Administration. “TSA has created a robust ID security...
DRDO launches explosive detection kit in US
It looks like a little pocket sized cigar box, but it packs a mighty punch in the fight against terrorism. And now this nifty...
Pune eateries comply with CCTV rule
Almost 85% of the eateries in Pune have installed CCTV cameras as a safety measure that the police had asked them to follow after...
Banks looking at voice biometrics for security
Some banks in the country are in discussion to introduce voice biometrics as an option for authenticating phone banking. For banks, the main attraction...
Two telecom security bodies to be formed for telecom security
The government will soon establish two separate regulatory agencies for coordinating all telecom security-related initiatives to shield India's telephone networks from possible cyber attacks,...
New Delhi police chief lists his priorities
Bhim Sain Bassi, the new Police commissioner of Delhi, has his priorities clear - he wants to make the national capital safe for women....
Security clearance for Aerocity hotels comes with riders
Four months after 12 hotels of Aerocity — a hospitality project near the Indira Gandhi International Airport that is awaiting clearance from the Ministry...
Govt. mulls R&D centre for tech security tools
To raise its technological capability in the area of homeland security, the government is looking at setting up a centre for focused research on...
Banks may face the music for banks’ ATM security failure
Alarmed by the recent heists at unguarded ATMs, the state home department has sprung into action. It has directed the police to check whether...
CCTV cameras help curb cargo thefts at airport: CISF
Incidents of theft at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport's cargo terminal have reduced drastically following the installation of over 650 CCTV cameras, said the...
“There is no respect for a security guard in society and...
AP Private Security Association State President C. Bhaskar Reddy said there were around 1,500 security agencies in the State employing four lakh guards. He...
Hi Tech surveillance system for Mumbai Metro
Crimes like spitting in coaches or damaging them will not go unnoticed aboard Mumbai's first Metro route. An advanced video system, VTS Firetide 7010,...
Delhi runway security: Shoulder-fired missiles top panel’s list of concerns
A committee comprising representatives of various security agencies at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has recommended that an audit plan should be developed...
Police to book banks failing to install CCTV cameras on premises...
Failure to install CCTV camera on bank premises and ATMs will now result in the registration of an FIR against the bank concerned. This...
Mumbai Airport security check-points irk MHA
The new terminal at the Mumbai International Airport where security checkpoints precede immigration counters, has run afoul of the Union Home Ministry and might...
