BSIA chairman receives 'outstanding contribution' award

Adam Wiseberg, Chairman of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), has received the PSI Premier Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Security Industry for his longstanding commitment - through key technical committees and industry associations - to the raising of standards and the implementation of best practice across the CCTV industry.

The award was given at the PSI Premier Awards Event, organised by Professional Security Installer magazine, and held on 3 June 2008 at Moor Park in Hertfordshire. The PSI Premier Awards judging panel was particularly impressed by Wiseberg's passion for a more professional and quality-based industry, which is effectively regulated to ensure that standards are kept consistently high.

A high profile figure in the security industry as Managing Director of RemGuard Visual Management and an AD Group Board Director, Wiseberg has been Chairman of the BSIA for the past two years and was the first representative from the CCTV industry to hold this pivotal position. Previously, as Chairman of the Association's CCTV Section, he was the main driver of the BS8418 standard for remotely monitored, detector activated CCTV. BS8418 delivers an important framework for best practice, underlining the need for the right operator procedures to be in place at the Remote Video Response Centre (RVRC) and – vitally – the difference that layout and installation can make between the detection and non-detection of crime. Adam also presided over another landmark standard for CCTV which was developed from a BSIA code of practice – BS 8495, the standard for digital CCTV recording systems for the purpose of exported image data to be used as evidence – as part of his work on GW1/10.

Wiseberg is currently on the Board of Skills for Security and represents the CCTV industry on the Association of Chief Police Officers' Security Systems Group. He has also served on CENELEC (the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation) for a number of years as the UK's principal expert on CCTV. In this role he has been heavily involved in developing the new EN 50132-1 standard.

Adam Wiseberg comments: "I am honoured to have received this prestigious award in recognition of my work to promote effective standards in the security industry. In particular I am delighted that my efforts - and those of my colleagues – with regards to the landmark BS8418 Code of Practice have been acknowledged in this way."

For more information on the BSIA please visit www.bsia.co.uk.

Editor’s Notes

The British Security Industry Association is the trade association covering all aspects of the professional security industry in the UK. Its 570 members provide over 70% of UK security products and services and adhere to strict quality standards. For more information see www.bsia.co.uk, email info@bsia.co.uk or telephone 0845 389 3889.

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