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Waterfall sets

neW standards

of security

W hile the development New surveillance cameras installed along

has always prided itself
on delivering extremely
good security within Waterfall Drive, side roads, and other Waterfall
the various residential estates and access routes over the past few months, have
the CBD, the safety and security of
Waterfall as a whole has recently already contributed to reducing crime both
been significantly improved. The
installation of a new surveillance inside and outside Waterfall.
system, with number plate and face
recognition capabilities, as well as achieved this by setting entirely new criminal movement and activity,
artificial intelligence software, was standards in terms of preventative but also apprehending criminals.”
completed in November and went rather than reactive security,” he says.
live on 1 December 2019 with a “The second pillar of the project,”
view to enabling a thorough crime He explains that the success of the he continues, “is tactical response
detection and prevention strategy. project is built on two pillars. – which boils down to the system
alerting Waterfall’s security team
According to Thys redelinghuys, “Firstly, we installed a network to any potential criminal elements,
general Manager of the Waterfall of surveillance cameras linked to which they then react in tactical
Common services Company, the to a control room and combined response vehicles that form a crucial
objective is to create what amounts this with crime information part of the broader security initiative.”
to a criminally unfriendly area - collected from various sources,
one which is secure for everyone including the sAPs and various “There is a lot of intelligence built
living, working and visiting here. private security organisations. into the back-end of this surveillance
This significantly increases our system. This is where the broader
“Although crime happens everywhere overall security intelligence and crime information, collected from
in south Africa, we want to ensure means we are visibly connected to the sources mentioned above,
that the Waterfall area is as safe and a much broader base involved not comes into play in terms of more
secure as possible. We feel we have only in tracking and preventing easily identifying suspicious persons,

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