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SUMMARY:October Forum: 999\, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms
DESCRIPTION:Location: Gimson Room\, Secular Hall\, Humberstone Gate\, Leicester \n\n\n\n\n\nDay 282 West Midlands Police: West Midlands Police via Wikimedia Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day_282_-West_Midlands_Police(8067244132).jpg\n\n\n\nAbout the October Forum \n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Chris Williams \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n‘999\, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms’ \n\n\n\nMany of us will have dialed ‘999’ and asked for ‘police’. But what’s the history of this system that we take for granted? It began in the 1930s – but owed a lot to earlier innovation from the military and the railways. Once British police forces became centrally controlled on an operational level\, they also transformed technologically. Computers brought information into the control room\, and CCTV brought images. This lecture tells the story of this transformation and its wider significance in British society. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nDr Chris Williams has researched and written various books and articles on police history\, including police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV. He is the author of Police Control Systems in Britain\, 1775–1975: From Parish Constable to National Computer (2014).  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. The Forum will be held in Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate in the Gimson Room.   \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
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