It is almost impossible to travel without your image being captured on CCTV, be it on motorways, in banks, department stores, high streets, shops and shopping centres, etc. Yet the images gathered from such recordings are often of poor quality, making them ambiguous in Court.

It is vital that the utmost is obtained from poor images, to avoid miscarriages of justice. By using the latest image enhancement technology, our Experts can utilise their evidential experience to extract the most from your imagery evidence, and produce enhanced video footage to DVD video or still print form.

In instances where the imagery evidence is still of marginal quality and doubt exists over identities or actions captured on videotape, we can offer Expert opinion on the recorded material. This can also include facial, body, clothing, vehicle and other object comparisons (mobile telephones, weapons etc.), height estimations, and vehicle speed calculations.

Effective presentational enhancements include: production of video and images to DVD, highlighting of persons or objects of interest, and superimposition of mapping onto CCTV material to clarify movements.

Why have this evidence checked?

It is not uncommon for CCTV recordings to be "over-interpreted". This may include descriptions of actions that simply cannot be seen, but are believed to have happened, or description of objects, clothing or people that include details that simply cannot be seen. This type of evidence can often be put into context by means of enlarged still prints, or enlarged CCTV sequences to DVD, which objectively demonstrate exactly what can and cannot be seen.

Furthermore, mistakes have been made regarding identification evidence from CCTV, both by lay-witnesses and experts.

Services include:

• Analysis, authentication, enhancement, and interpretation of video and other imagery

• Body mapping

• Clothing comparisons from images

• Correction of faulty video recordings and salvaging, repair and restoration of damaged tapes

• Decoding of multiplexed video recordings

• Digital enhancement of video & other images

• Edited compilations produced from CCTV recordings

• Enhanced images produced onto DVD or colour print up to Super-A3 size

• Facial mapping / facial comparisons

• Height estimations from images

• Object comparisons from images, including clothing, mobile telephones, weapons etc.

• Slowing down of time-lapse video recordings

• Sub-titling of video material to aid presentation or assist with videos with poor audio

• Tracking and highlighting of individuals, map superimposition and mosaicing

• Vehicle comparisons from images

• Vehicle speed estimations from CCTV recordings