The units were used in the Tayside Police’s custody suite at the Force’s District Headquarters in Perth during the summit, providing a secure storage backup of CCTV images recorded on the force’s existing BX2 digital recorders.
“As the lead force for the policing of the G8 summit it is important that we have the right CCTV systems in place,” said Sarah Craig, senior media relations officer at Tayside Police. The force requested a RAID unit with six hard disks and 1.2 TB storage capacity, or 100 days of recording time in 24-hour time-lapse mode.