How IT can help curb football hooliganism

Leeds City Council uses IP CCTV solution to help West Yorkshire Police

Leeds City Council is using an IP CCTV solution to curb antisocial behaviour at football matches

Leeds City Council is using an IT solution to help prevent public disorder and criminal offences at key football matches.

Leedswatch, the CCTV operation run by Leeds City Council’s Community Safety Department, is using a real-time video solution from Vemotion Interactive to enhance its support to West Yorkshire Police during matches.

Vemotion’s video compression and transmission equipment has been installed in the latest Leedswatch mobile CCTV vans which are now able to supplement the existing fixed-camera network by recording in areas not previously covered. The live footage is also transmitted to police control rooms as well as to the control room within Elland Road stadium.

The Vemotion video compression technology enables pictures to be transmitted over low bandwidths. The images are captured by standard CCTV cameras mounted on the mobile units, then transmitted back to a Vemotion streaming server in the CCTV control room. An interface from the standard mobile phone network is used to transmit the video over the internet using GPRS.

The solution was used during the highly charged match between Leeds United and Millwall earlier this season.