Public: Security Equipment Enables Town Centre Car Park To Gain Approval Of Safer Parking Scheme
The scheme, introduced in 1992 by the Association of Chief Police Officers, was initially launched as the Secured Car Parks scheme and then re-introduced in 2004 as the Safer Parking Scheme. It was brought about to encourage those responsible for car parks to improve security standards as a means of reducing criminal activity, the fear of crime and the perception of crime in all car parks and vehicle retention areas. The initiative is primarily aimed at the management of criminal behaviour within the parking environment, and hence requires owners/operators to adopt an active management strategy to ensure that there is minimal occurrence of crime.
The planned expansion and progression of TCS’s car park division was essentially aimed towards the quality end of the market, with a heavy focus on customer service combined with technology. The desired result was to help ensure a comfortable, safe and secure environment for TCS’s customers and employees. TCS started the search for an installer able to design a CCTV system compliant with the scheme and, following a personal recommendation, chose Leeds based Security Design and Installation Ltd.
