Verkada security for schools, trusts and venues — installed by The Specialist Electrical Group.
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How we work

Survey first, written scope, our own engineers, and one number afterwards.

Book a free site survey
The process

Six stages, and the first two are free

  1. 1

    A conversation

    Twenty minutes on the phone. What has actually happened on your site, what you already have, and whether this is worth a visit.

  2. 2

    A free site survey

    We walk the site with you. Where cameras should point, which doors matter, what the fire strategy says, what the network can take. You get a written summary whether or not you go further.

  3. 3

    A written scope and quotation

    Itemised: hardware, licences, installation, aftercare. Positions justified individually, and exclusions stated.

  4. 4

    Design and coordination

    Locking arrangements agreed with your fire risk assessor. Network agreed with whoever runs it. Programme agreed around your term dates.

  5. 5

    Installation

    Containment, cable, power, terminations, commissioning and certification by our own engineers. DBS-checked on school sites.

  6. 6

    Handover and aftercare

    Command configured with roles, a short written guide, a DPIA starting point and signage, and a review date in the diary.

What we bring that a box-shifter does not

Four things

Electrical certification

The installation is certified under The Specialist Electrical Group’s NICEIC approval.

Fire competence

We install fire systems as a group, so door locking is designed properly rather than bolted on.

One team

The people who survey are the people who install and the people who answer afterwards.

A willingness to say no

If the survey concludes you need two sensors rather than a system, that is what it will say.

The work itself

What the installation looks like when an electrical contractor does it

The camera is a couple of hours. The cable route, the containment, the fire-stopping where it crosses a compartment wall and the certificate at the end are the job.

An engineer working at height fitting a camera to a wall
Containment and route first. Where the cable goes decides how the building looks afterwards, and it is the part a box-shifter leaves to somebody else.
Two engineers fitting a dome camera to a ceiling
Our own engineers, DBS-checked for school work, and scheduled around your term rather than ours.
A member of staff at a desk with camera views on screen
Handover is a person sitting with your staff until they can use it, not a PDF and a login emailed over.
What we ask from you

Five things that make it go well

  • What has actually happened on site in the last two years.
  • Your fire risk assessment, or contact details for whoever holds it.
  • Whoever runs your network, in the room for half an hour.
  • Your data protection lead, at the point we discuss retention and access.
  • A decision-maker at the survey, because the useful conversations happen while we are walking.

Start with a survey, not a quotation.

We walk the site, look at what you already have, and tell you what would genuinely help — including where the answer is that you do not need anything.

Book a free site survey Call 01727 822 833