CCTV Acquisition

Reading time: 10 minWe have made it! After several months of posts, we have come to the series summary on CCTV Acquisition. Thank you for joining us on this journey.  It’s now time to look back and remind ourselves of some of the key points, and understand how incorrect acquisition may affect the future tasks required. 

Reading time: 7 minWelcome back to the blog series on CCTV Acquisition where, in this article, we cover viewing CCTV after acquisition. At initial thought, you may believe this to be a quick subject. However, as we dive deeper you will see that there are several considerations at different stages. Read on to learn more!

Reading time: 13 minThe CCTV Acquisition blog series continues here with the creation of master and working copies after CCTV acquisition. Incorrect handling and exhibit referencing can cause huge delays to the Criminal Justice System. These errors may even lead to miscarriages of justice, so it is vital that all acquisition, movement, processing and changes are correctly documented and […]

Reading time: 10 minThe CCTV Acquisition series continues here with another installment. This post features an acquisition from a cloud-based service provider. In previous posts, we have always started with a device that contains the data required to be preserved as evidence. With full cloud-based storage, the data is on a remote server, owned and managed by a […]

Reading time: 8 minWelcome back to our series on CCTV Acquisition where in this post we will be looking at remote acquisition using a mobile device. We briefly looked at this in a previous post where we examined the challenges of CCTV and video evidence that are submitted to the police by the public. 

Reading time: 14 minThe CCTV Acquisition series continues this week with open-box acquisition using the internal Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Yes, it’s time to get the screwdrivers out! It’s taken us several months to get to this point, with a slow progression starting with the basics and understanding the crazy world of CCTV systems. In the last post, […]

Reading time: 6 minThis latest post within the CCTV Acquisition series brings us to CCTV Device Removal and Replacement. We will look at the considerations for both and highlight some possible issues. In the last post, we dived into networking and examined how to acquire video evidence via network access. Networking is often conducted within the Forensic Video […]

Reading time: 12 minWelcome back to our continuing blog series on CCTV acquisition. In this post, we will concentrate on closed-box CCTV acquisition using network access. We have covered many aspects so far. In the last post, we learned that a closed-box acquisition does not require a screwdriver, in that we won’t be opening up any devices! We […]

Reading time: 11 minIt’s time for the latest installment in our CCTV Acquisition series. This week we are moving on and finally acquiring some CCTV footage and preserving it onto a temporary storage device through a closed-box CCTV acquisition. Later in the series, we will look more at storage, master copies and working copies. For now though, we […]

Reading time: 8 minThe CCTV Acquisition blog series has now moved on to navigating a CCTV device and reviewing video. The competency level required increases here for two reasons. Firstly, you will be taking control of, what could be, a relatively expensive piece of electronic equipment that does not belong to you. Secondly, this device may contain vital […]

Reading time: 7 minWelcome back to our blog series on CCTV Acquisition. In this latest article, we shall be looking at the public submissions of CCTV and video evidence. CCTV and video are now covered under the umbrella of digital data. In the series so far, we have learned about some of the many challenges investigators face when […]

Reading time: 6 minHi everyone, and welcome once again to the CCTV Acquisition blog series. In this week’s post, we are going to concentrate on the recovery of CCTV evidence. A recovery of CCTV evidence involves the simple request and collection of the video material. There are, however, some very important considerations. So read on, to learn more!