Wireless video solutions provide police services with the ability to share imagery and more accurate and up-to date information more widely across incident grounds – for armed offender incidents, for example – thereby supporting improved decision making and providing better post-incident evidential records (for coroner’s and public enquiries, for example).
Counter-terror activities, border and transport security and the 2012 London Olympics, all provide police, customs and counter-terror forces with huge public safety challenges, requiring the most advanced communications solutions available. Satellite broadband and wireless data, video, voice and internet solutions deliver proven command and communications capabilities for improving their response to incidents.
Policing of the highly successful 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales, one of the world’s most high profile sports events, was carried out by Gwent Police using mobile incident command units equipped by Excelerate, with satellite broadband delivering secure, high bandwidth data access, video, voice, internet and email, supported by bike-mounted police officers deploying wireless body-worn cameras.
The Surrey Police force has replaced Automatic Number Plate Recognition units using 3G communications with satellite-equipped units, thereby saving substantial amounts of money, delivering greater communications reliability over 3G systems, and providing dynamically updated intelligence to units in the field identifying vehicles that may have been involved in criminal incidents.
At fire and rescue services around the UK, such as West Yorkshire FRS, Wiltshire FRS and Royal Berkshire FRS, satellite-equipped mobile incident command units are deliver improved interoperable communications and wireless video support to commanders throughout incident grounds, between different emergency services and back to base.
Ambulance services can use wireless video solutions to provide crews in the field with the capacity to undertake remote diagnostics, thereby overcoming a major handicap to savings the lives of injured patients located far from hospital emergency departments. The UK national ambulance service’s pioneering HART (Hazardous Area Response Team) programme includes a fleet of 15 advanced forward command vehicles using a wide range of Excelerate solutions to deliver improved multi-agency command communications for specially trained teams of ambulance personnel operating within the ‘hot zone’ of chemical, biological and other hazardous materials incidents.