Out and About distributor’s open day: WELCOME AT NEW HOME The distributor Oprema invited customers and partners to the company’s first open day at its new Cardiff home. Guests were well catered for; and pictured centre, the demo room Photos courtesy of Oprema Partner prizes Oprema is running to Christmas a partner prize give-away, of products from Dahua, Paxton, Seagate, Optex, Apollo, Honeywell, GJD Manufacturing, B-Tech, CDVI, Advanced and Milestone Systems. Technical and sales staff welcomed guests and talked about all things security over drinks and a hog roast, and the distributor also unveiled its new purpose-built training and demonstration suite. On show are products including Dahua’s range of ANPR, IP and HDCVI cameras, thermal imagery, facial recognition, analytics, panoramic and artificial intelligence products. The suite allows for demonstrations of the various integrated technologies installed around the company’s new HQ, covering CCTV, access control, fire and intruder systems. The room has a full HD video wall, two touch screens and two 4k monitors, all demos being controlled from the centre console. Featuring a retractable wall, the new suite can host a range of events, from such open days to more intimate sales meetings. Oprema MD Matthew Epps said: “Our new purpose-built training and demonstration suite has been designed with our partners front of mind. Our installation partners are welcome Consec day ends in a draw At its annual conference Consec, the Association of Security Consultants are never disappointed by the amusing or pithy speeches by their patrons, and 2017 was no exception. This year’s patron-speakers were Lord James Bethell; and former PSNI chief constable Sir High Orde. Sir Hugh is pictured below speaking; as a panel on stage with Shaun Hipgrave, head of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC) at the Home Office; Dr Alison Wakefield; and Ed Butler, the retired brigadier general now head of risk analysis for Pool Reinsurance Limited. Main sponsors of the event at the Heathrow Marriott were Dallmeier. l Raffle winners drawn by the panel were Jacob Hewitt, Jon Lee of Doran Risk Consulting, and Diane Marchena of Red Leaf. p to invite their customers to visit to demonstrate how the latest integrated technologies could be used in their projects, and for our manufacturing partners, it’s a fantastic opportunity to promote the capabilities of their latest technologies. More and more of our customers are recognising the importance and value of undertaking specialist training. Our new facility provides the ideal training environment, allowing a mixture of classroom theory and hands-on practice. We’d like to invite our partners to use this facility to equip their teams with the specialist knowledge and confidence they need to install a wide range of products, allowing them to deliver quality solutions to end users.” One of the visitors, Peter Leonard, APE Fire & Security Ltd, said: “Oprema’s new training and demonstration suite is incredibly impressive. Being able to invite our customers here to demonstrate the types of integrated technologies we’re recommending for their projects, as well as having access to on-site technical team to assist with system design, is a real selling-point and definitely sets them apart from their competition.” p Clockwise from above: the back row at Consec. Paul Heffernan, group chief information security officer, Unipart Group, the first speaker of the afternoon, listens to the second, Aidan Anderson of Red Leaf Consultancy. And the day wrapped up with a panel, flanked by ASC vice-chairman Roger Noakes (left) and the event chair Bill Butler, the retired SIA chief, right Photos by Mark Rowe 52 NOVEMBER 2017 PROFESSIONAL SECURITY www.professionalsecurity.co.uk p52 Outabout <strong>27</strong>-11.indd 1 14/10/2017 11:05
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