﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:37:47 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Facewatch and TFS launch new online crime reduction training portal for businesses</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-and-tfs-launch-new-online-crime-reduction-training-portal-for-businesses,c9578314</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1599611</guid><description><![CDATA[Facewatch are pleased to announce an exciting alliance with leading risk consultants & training providers TFS. Via the Facewatch platform users will be able to access online training programmes designed to meet the needs of all business sectors, underpinned by the notion of continued professional development in affordable and structured bite size chunks that will be created by leading educationalists and security professionals.

TFS is a UK market leader that provides a range of training courses and consultancy services designed to provide organisations with solutions that deal with]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Bad Day for Shoplifters</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/a-bad-day-for-shoplifters,c9573187</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1590686</guid><description><![CDATA[Facewatch and Littoralis are pleased to announce that they are working together to develop an integrated business crime service to enhance their ability to support Police, Partnerships and Businesses in the reduction and prevention of crime.  This will be effected by integration between DISC, Littoralis’ secure online platform for information sharing between local community groups such as BCRPs and BIDs with Facewatch’s leading secure Digital Crime Reporting and CCTV analytics system.
Simon Gordon, Chairman of Facewatch said: “We are delighted to have reached this understanding.  DISC has]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:13:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch appoints Richard Thompson OBE as Chief Executive Officer</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-appoints-richard-thompson-obe-as-chief-executive-officer,c9546309</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1549589</guid><description><![CDATA[Facewatch, the company that  runs the fully integrated online reporting system, used by police forces and businesses across the UK has appointed Richard Thompson as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Richard was most recently the Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and has extensive experience gained internationally during his time at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Simon Gordon, Chairman, Facewatch Ltd 

“This is a important step change for Facewatch, which was started in 2010 as a way to protect my customers from bag theft in Gordon’s wine bar. Richard]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NSI (National Security Inspectorate) and Facewatch announce their intention to join forces in the use of CCTV to reduce crime</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/nsi--national-security-inspectorate--and-facewatch-announce-their-intention-to-join-forces-in-the-us,c9469711</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1433809</guid><description><![CDATA[NSI and Facewatch have announced today that they intend to work closely together in a powerful partnering arrangement which will help transform the use of CCTV by moving it into the digital world of online reporting
NSI and Facewatch have announced today that they intend to work closely together in a powerful partnering arrangement which will help transform the use of CCTV by moving it into the digital world of online reporting.

NSI (The National Security Inspectorate) provides certification schemes audited against internationally recognised standards for the security and fire sectors.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:06:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael Gordon Gibson, the former president of Crime Stoppers International, joins Facewatch as Police and International Operations director</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/michael-gordon-gibson--the-former-president-of-crime-stoppers-international--joins-facewatch-as-poli,c9455117</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1407808</guid><description><![CDATA[Michael Gordon Gibson will join Facewatch to focus on the National and International roll out of the service to Police forces. Currently 9 UK forces have adopted the Facewatch system and the goal is to increase coverage rapidly over the next 12 months.
Michael Gordon Gibson, commented:

“This is a superb opportunity for me to join a highly innovative business which is really changing the way low level crime is managed and controlled. My recent experience with Crime Stoppers International and having served the public and third sectors for over thirty-four years allows me to bring s a wealth]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:19:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Business Improvement Districts go online with Facewatch to reduce city centre crime</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/business-improvement-districts-go-online-with-facewatch-to-reduce-city-centre-crime,c9397077</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1295957</guid><description><![CDATA[Facewatch, the successful crime reporting systems that enables businesses and city centre CCTV operators to report crime directly to the Police, is being recommended by the British Bids Association to all BIDs across the UK as the best tool to reduce crime and make city centre’s safer.
Dr. Julie Grail, Chief Executive of British BIDs

"We are delighted to introduce Facewatch as a new Bb (British Bids) Commercial Partner alongside Boots; Jones Lang LaSalle and Santander among others. Rapidly modernising the way crime is reported across the country and providing integrated online systems]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:15:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch chosen as standard equipment in winning Police car</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-chosen-as-standard-equipment-in-winning-police-car,c9393245</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1289006</guid><description><![CDATA[Vauxhall Cars wins ACPO future technology challenge
·  Astra Sports Tourer wins ACPO future technology challenge
  ·  Equipment including Facewatch and forensic and face-recognition software wows judges
  ·  British-built and converted in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire and Millbrook, Bedfordshire
  ·  Police fleet dominance for Vauxhall with 70 per cent market share

A crime-busting Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer, installed with Facewatch and other leading edge technology, has won a challenge from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to find a way of incorporating future technology]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:44:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kings is crowned as first mover in cloud CCTV using Facewatch</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/kings-is-crowned-as-first-mover-in-cloud-cctv-using-facewatch,c9379111</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1261751</guid><description><![CDATA[Kings Security Ltd, the award winning National Fire & Security Services business, has become the first to enable its monitoring centre to use the Facewatch crime reporting and communications system on behalf of its business partners.

Kings’ NSI Gold approved alarm receiving centre and remote video receiving centre will use the Facewatch system to provide online and real-time reporting of incidents, including CCTV and still images, directly to the police on behalf of their clients, saving customer facing frontline staff valuable time and effort.

Older standalone CCTV recording devices]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:21:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Northamptonshire Police become third UK Police force to launch Facewatch ID</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/northamptonshire-police-become-third-uk-police-force-to-launch-facewatch-id,c9357840</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1217936</guid><description><![CDATA[The general public in Northamptonshire now have the ability to assist the police in identifying   ‘people of interest’ from their smart phones using the new Facewatch ID App. The App has already shown success in London and Surrey following its launch by the Metropolitan and Surrey Police in 2012. (The Metropolitan Police have received over 180 positive IDs in just 6 months, June- Dec 2012)

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Facewatch is available free of charge on iPhone, Blackberry and Android smart phones through the relevant application stores and works when a user inputs their postcode into the App. The]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:30:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch to launch public App for reporting personal theft</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-to-launch-public-app-for-reporting-personal-theft,c9350039</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1202113</guid><description><![CDATA[In response to public frustration at the ever increasing level of mobile phone thefts, Facewatch has announced that it is launching a Personal Theft Reporting App which will be a public version of their highly successful online business crime reporting system.
The new App will allow the public to report personal theft of valuables using their mobile phones. The App will provide an instant insurance crime reference and the option to cancel all payment cards free of charge with one call.  The App will enable a victim of phone theft to use a friend or 3rd parties phone to report the crime.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:01:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crimestoppers, Facewatch and ACPO form strategic partnership</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/crimestoppers--facewatch-and-acpo-form-strategic-partnership,c9323676</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1148406</guid><description><![CDATA[Crimestoppers, Facewatch and the Association of Chief Police officers announced today that they have agreed to work in partnership with a focus on sharing technology and improving the tools available for crime reduction initiatives.
Michael Laurie, Crimestoppers’ Chief Executive commented:

“This is an exciting opportunity to further develop Crimestoppers’ range of services for the public in providing them with an anonymous route to pass on information about crime as well as an opportunity to embrace the business community.  Facewatch not only gives us access to the very latest database]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:12:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>RAC(Retailers Against Crime) and Facewatch work together to promote best practice in crime prevention</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/rac-retailers-against-crime--and-facewatch-work-together-to-promote-best-practice-in-crime-preventio,c9312656</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1129866</guid><description><![CDATA[Retailers Against Crime (RAC) and Facewatch Ltd are proud to announce that they have agreed to work together in order to promote best practice in crime prevention strategies for retailers throughout the UK.
Retailers Against Crime was launched 1997 with participation from 47 outlets and today operates in over 2,500 major stores. RAC recognise the massive losses incurred each year by retailers caused by highly organised thieves in their stores. The primary aim of the organisation is to assist its members’ crime prevention strategies by helping to reduce shrinkage, to reduce theft (both]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:17:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch to exhibit at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-to-exhibit-at-the-international-association-of-chiefs-of-police-conference-in-san-diego,c9310608</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1125967</guid><description><![CDATA[For the first time a group of leading security businesses from the UK have been selected by the UK Trade and Investment Department to showcase their innovation at IACP. Included in the line up is Facewatch, the leading ACPO appoved online crime reporting system.
Facewatch is the UKs only Police approved online crime reporting system enabling businesses to upload still and moving images of an incident directly to the Police. This is the first system which provides the public with an 'open platform' interface to the Police.

Trialled across London in 2011 Facewatch is now used extensively by]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:39:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Surrey Police launches Facewatch smartphone application</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/surrey-police-launches-facewatch-smartphone-application,c9287623</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1080484</guid><description><![CDATA[Surrey Police is continuing its relentless pursuit of criminals by launching Facewatch,the mobile phone application which allows members of the public to help identify suspects at the touch of a button.
Following the success of the Surrey Police Beat application which was launched at the beginning of 2011 officers are now hoping Facewatch will help identify people caught on camera that may be responsible for a crime or be able to help with an active investigation.

Detective Inspector Mark Parry, said: “Surrey Police is already known as an innovative Force and the launch of Facewatch in]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:45:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MPS provide Mobile Facewatch App to Londoners to help identify CCTV images</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/mps-provide-mobile-facewatch-app-to-londoners-to-help-identify-cctv-images,c9277229</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision511567</guid><description><![CDATA[Londoners can now help identify suspects wanted for their role in last summers disturbances at the touch of a button after thousands of images have today (Tuesday 26th June) been loaded onto the MPS smart phone App driven by technology from Facewatch.
Following the disorder last year, and a meticulous investigation of CCTV, police have identified and uploaded 2,880 images, and are urging the public to download the App and assist in identifying people the police want to speak to. 

 

The popularity of the app lies in its simplicity.  As well as being available on all computers atwww.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:10:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch preview their latest advances in integrated cloud based police crime reporting solutions at IFSEC</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-preview-their-latest-advances-in-integrated-cloud-based-police-crime-reporting-solutions-a,c9258144</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision491747</guid><description><![CDATA[At IFSEC 2012 Facewatch is demonstrating a fully integrated low level crime reporting solution for businesses enabling a premises CCTV cameras to be managed on or off-site with the ability to upload CCTV clips of incidents and a full evidence pack directly to the Police. STAND E80 HALL 4
· The Facewatch system uses the very latest IP cloud storage technology enabling both analogue and IP camera devices to use the system.
  · Facewatch is the UK's only crime reporting solution which enables CCTV evidence to be sent to the Police.
  · The system provides a complete crime reporting, image]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:43:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Public phone App launched to help identify Police CCTV images</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/public-phone-app-launched-to-help-identify-police-cctv-images,c9247561</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision480875</guid><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Police are asking the London Public for help in identifying thousands of images relating to low level crimes from across the Capital using a new App called Facewatch id.
To help make identification extremely easy the images will be made available via a unique mobile phone App design by Facewatch with images supplied by the MET Police. The App has already been responsible for the identification of 29 people in a police trial held during the last two months. Facewatch id is now available to all Police Forces in the UK 

Facewatch id, available on BlackBerry, Android and]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:55:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>National Business Crime Forum increases representation</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/national-business-crime-forum-increases-representation,c9236568</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision469676</guid><description><![CDATA[The Forum held their first full meeting of 2012 at the FSB London Offices last Thursday 15th March. Chaired by Mike Cherry, the forums Vice Chair and Policy director.
The two new appointees to the Board were present - Barrie Millett, who is Head of Resilience for EON and John Prior, who is Head of Security for the Home Retail Group, they were welcomed by the two other directors Jean Mountain who represents the British Chambers of Commerce and Richard Stones who is the representative of the Security Institute, and Forum members.
 
Membership of the forum is steadily growing with]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:44:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ladbrokes pilot Facewatch to cut crime in betting shops</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/ladbrokes-pilot-facewatch-to-cut-crime-in-betting-shops,c9230618</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision463611</guid><description><![CDATA[In a ground breaking crime reduction initiative Ladbrokes will be piloting Facewatch, the online crime reporting and image sharing system, in all their betting shops across London.
Facewatch, which is used by the Police, Business Crime Reduction Partnerships, Business Improvement Districts, shopping centres and retailers across the capital, has been proved to reduce crime* by improving detection and conviction rates and acting as a strong deterrent to would-be thieves and shoplifters. Facewatch also saves the Police and shop staff considerable time by offering a rapid and customer focused]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:16:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>16,500 shops in crime reduction partnership with Facewatch</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/16-500-shops-in-crime-reduction-partnership-with-facewatch,c9227369</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision460045</guid><description><![CDATA[National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN (https://www.nfrnonline.com)) partner with Facewatch (http://www.facewatch.co.uk) in the UK’s largest ever crime reduction initiative
The NFRN is to be the first National sponsor and official partner of the not-for-profit company Facewatch & Partners in a three year deal, enabling over 16,500 independent shops to participate in a ground breaking initiative to quantify an accurate picture of the prevalence of low level crime in our communities and take positive action to reduce it in partnership with police forces across the UK.

The scheme]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:08:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch joins CSARN (City Security and Resilience Network)</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-joins-csarn--city-security-and-resilience-network-,c9225363</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision457586</guid><description><![CDATA[Facewatch, has become a full member of CSARN the UKs leading business security and resilience membership network.
CSARN’s goals are to bring together public and private sector leaders to provide a staff safety advisory service providing business intelligence, educational networking events, training and the management of specialist projects.

Simon Gordon the Chairman of Facewatch has been invited to speak at the Northern Ireland Resilience Briefing to be held in Belfast on April 18th2012 where he will present the Facewatch on-line solution to detecting and identifying business crime.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:09:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch is free!</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-is-free-,c9219276</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision451596</guid><description><![CDATA[UK Businesses given free access to Facewatch: The National low level crime-reporting database
Facewatch is now being offered free to all UK businesses, with a focus on retailers and the licensed trade, through Facewatch & Partners, a newly set up Not for Profit Company chaired by Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas.

Facewatch provides online crime reporting and CCTV image sharing directly to the Police and has been awarded “Secured by Design” status by ACPO (The Association of Chief Police Officers).

Facewatch was piloted in London during 2011, starting in the Victoria Business Improvement]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:23:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facewatch to attend CTN World 2011</title><link>http://news.cision.com/facewatch/r/facewatch-to-attend-ctn-world-2011,c9188907</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision419274</guid><description><![CDATA[The new, online way to report and deter shop crime is launched at CTN World 2011, 20th-21st November, Stand 131, at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry
Facewatch, the online crime reporting system, will be launched to convenience and newsagent store owners at the show. The online product was piloted in London this year with great success, and has the full acceptance of the Metropolitan Police. Facewatch provides CCTV evidence and witness statements directly to the local police, empowering business owners to report crime, and deter and ultimately catch more petty criminals, a scourge on the convenience]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:08:45 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>