First Security’s Specialist Services Division A Business unit launched to deliver specific value-added services to its parent company’s blue chip customer base has opened a new IP-based remote monitoring facility that will augment First’s core security guarding capability.

The facility takes maximum advantage of the latest computer and Local Area Network (LAN) technologies such that clients can see, control and record activity on their site(s) via CCTV remote monitoring. The IP base means that there’s no reliance on proprietary platforms, allowing monitoring via laptop computers from any location. The philosophy is very much about proactive remote monitoring.

First Security’s managing director Jonathan Levine told Security Management Today: “We firmly believe that a professional, licensed security guarding service, augmented by a range and diversity of specialist services that are constantly refined and updated, is going to be the way forward.”