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Spire Manchester Hospital
At Spire Manchester Hospital, the physical
security product company Abloy UK has
supplied PROTEC2 CLIQ and Traka 21 for key
management of medicines. Spire Manchester
Hospital is part of Spire Healthcare, a private
hospital group, offering in-patient and outpatient
procedures. The company recently spent
£70m on a new flagship hospital in Didsbury,
Manchester. At any healthcare institution,
drugs need to be secured, while giving nurses
convenient access. Poor management of keys,
and staff using older mechanical systems can
have problems locating keys to gain access to
controlled drugs – wasting nursing time and
affecting patient
care. The hospital
specified a mix
of PROTEC2
CLIQ keys and
cylinders which
were retrofitted
to a range of
Bristol Maid drug
cabinets around
the hospital,
including theatres,
out-patients and
several wards. Staff CLIQ keys were housed
in Traka 21 key cabinets fitted across the
wards. PROTEC2 CLIQ as an access control
system is based on mechanical security disc
cylinders, with encrypted electronic locking and
identification. Power to the lock is provided by
the CLIQ key; no batteries or wires are required
to either the lock or drug cabinet, making it
suitable the makers say for retrofit - even for
the drug trolleys. The system allows for remote
key management, providing audit trails on locks
and padlocks, and the ability to remove lost or
stolen keys from the system, while securing the
controlled drugs. Nurses enter a PIN code to
access a specific key which they validate.
William Hill
William Hill is the
latest to be audited
for the Secured
Environments
scheme run
by Perpetuity
for Secured by
Design; for ten
betting shops in
Westminster. That
includes liaison with the local Designing Out
Crime Officer (DOCO) to write their ‘crime
and disorder statement’. The purpose of the
statement is to demonstrate an understanding
of crime in the local area and how this impacts
on site security. Police make local situational
security recommendations. The organisation
will then have to create a plan to respond.
And separately the audit firm PwC has joined
Perpetuity’s Security Research Initiative.
Integrity Security Group
Integrity Security Group has selected
SmartTask for its staff rostering, proof of
attendance and control room management
software. The employee scheduling and
mobile workforce management product will
initially be used across 150 officers, before
being rolled across its wider operation. For
Integrity, SmartTask, replacing an outdated
time and attendance system, will monitor
the whereabouts and welfare of staff. James
Chittil, General Manager at Integrity Security
Group, said: “SmartTask is so simple to use
while providing impressive functionality that
is helping us better manage and protect our
staff.” The security officers will now book on
and off of shifts or register hourly check calls
using the MySmartTask app or by dialling into
call taking software from a designated phone
number. Key holding, alarm response and
mobile patrol officers will soon be able to scan
a RFID tag at each customer location using
a SmartTask-enabled smartphone to register
attendance. West Midlands-based Integrity
will use SmartTask’s intelligent rostering to
streamline internal planning processes, with
the aim of reducing the admin associated with
preparing work schedules. Rosters will be sent
automatically to MySmartTask or a preferred
email address, for staff to confirm availability.
SmartTask will also support the launch of an
out-of-hours control room.
London Borough of Redbridge
The London Borough of Redbridge has
extended its unattended CCTV enforcement
system to cover more locations where
compliance was becoming a concern. The
Videalert Digital Video Platform is to enforce
parking restrictions and traffic management
outside schools where major safety and
congestion issues have been raised. Michael
Jackson, Parking Manager at Redbridge
said: “The system has provided a sustainable
increase in compliance for school keep clear
markings and moving traffic contraventions
of up to 73pc since the Redbridge contract
commenced in 2015. Within the first month of
introducing CCTV at Isaac Newton Academy,
Redbridge experienced an increase in
compliance of 63pc and expects to see further
increases over the coming months. This level
of success is unprecedented in civil parking
and traffic enforcement.”
The Co-operative Group
ATMs lassoed or otherwise stolen from Coop
stores (pictured below; Kings Bromley
in Staffordshire, one rural store recently so
attacked) do not belong to the Co-op; nor
does the cash in the machines; ‘but it’s our
problem’, Andy Pope, head of risk at the Coop,
pictured above, told the ATM and Cyber
Security conference in London in October.
Rural convenience stores may beat low risk
of crime and violence against staff; yet gangs
may steal a local farm’s tractor, and ram it
into the shop. Among the risks to the retailer
are the structural damage (‘you can’t simply
take it out’). It can take weeks to check that
the premises are safe to open, besides the cost
of repair. In some parts of the UK, the Co-op
may be the only retailer in the area; and the
Co-op prides itself on its community service.
Through the National College of Policing,
senior police have been seconded to the Co-op,
for example to help gauge which shops are
most at risk, to accelerate the roll-out to those
stores first. The retailer ran a trial use of the
Smartwater traceable gel, applied to some
300 ATMs in stores out of the 25,000 on its
estate. So successful was that in deterring such
thefts, the Co-op has taken it nationally. In this
case as in others using the forensic marking
product, advertising spells out to the criminals
that banknotes when stolen are damaged by
being coated with the gel that shows up under
ultraviolet light, and can pin the loss to the
holder. Pope called on other retailers to come
on board: “We need a collective approach.”
Florian Mattinson, Smartwater MD, told the
event that there were more than one million
registered users of the company’s product.
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