On behalf of UK Policing, DASA is trying to better understand current market capability in meeting this challenge in order to fully scope and better design a potential future competition. The aims is that this will provide an understanding of what potential solutions to aid real time video feed aggregation already exist as well as emerging novel solutions. This request for information is not a commitment to subsequently launch a formal DASA competition.

Providing an effective public safety response is increasingly reliant on timely access and exploitation of digital information. However, access to digital information is typically frustrated by the data being held in proprietary formats within individual corporate operating systems. Access to CCTV by law enforcement personnel is currently a manual process of physical retrieval from third parties, if it is assessed as likely the CCTV will contain material of relevance to policing operations. The data is typically retrieved in a variety of file types through numerous formats (email, a USB stick, or burned onto DVD). To support more efficient use of resource, there is a need to explore novel exploitation of technology to better protect the public and enhance operational response.

Acknowledging the applicability of due process such as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) and legislation such as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and the General Data Protection Regulations (RIPA and GDPR), DASA is interested in solutions of any maturity which would allow police control room operators to deliver some or all of the following capability:

To pull/request data from a known CCTV system or Video Management System.

To aggregate the data feed and allow ingestion by a second video management system.

To access video held in a wide range of existing video standards, namely but not exclusively: IP multicast, IP Unicast, media in HTTP(S), RTP and RTSP and ONVIF compliance (RTSP over HTTP).

To access multiple concurrent video streams.

Any solution should also provide a Restful API for additional integration, to enable a more open approach to inter-operation.

All forms and maturity of potential solutions are of interest, ranging from commercial off the shelf products to collaborations between industry leads and academia.

The Capability Submission Form can be completed and commits neither DASA nor the applicant to anything, but submissions will be used to help DASA focus the direction of the work and shape the requirements for a possible themed call in this area in the future.

We are not interested in solutions which are reliant on the data being pushed from source. We are not interested in literature reviews, paper-based studies, non-technical solutions or marginal improvements to existing capabilities and at this stage costed proposals are not required.

DASA expresses that this is a market engagement request for information exercise at this stage and is not a competition, therefore costed proposals are not required.