Pakatak Blog

As the cold, dark winter nights draw in many people begin thinking about home security, often adding a CCTV system to bolster home security.
Whether it be adding a home CCTV system, improving and adding to door and window locks, putting up some outdoor lighting, making sure that lock on the back gate is working and, [...]

Was watching Top Gear on TV the other day and realised how similar the in car camera system that they use is to our own in car surveillance camera system.
Both in car camera systems use two cameras, one external of the road ahead and one internal camera monitoring the driver and passenger(s).
Our in car surveillance [...]

The demand for mini cameras, mini spy cameras and mini covert cameras just grows and grows.
We are currently looking to bring in a 25mm x 25mm high resolution mini camera.  This tiny camera will use a CCD sensor and offer an extremely high resolution of 540TVL.
It’s a hard wired mini camera with a pinhole lens [...]

We are working at building our range of hidden camera systems all the time and have recently added a couple of new spy camera systems to our online spy shop.
In the past if you have wanted a completely hidden camera system you have had to use a 2.4GHz wireless camera built into an every day [...]

Information released in 2008 by the Information Commsioners Office (ICO) with regards to CCTV Code of Practice and the Data Protection Act can be found here.
It is important to know about and follow the guidelines and rules set out for running, using and maintaning a CCTV system.
The information includes guidelines with regards to home CCTV [...]

The guys in the Living with Monkeys TV series are using a very similar wildlife spy camera as our own trail camera product.
From watching the programme they seem to be getting some excellent footage of monkeys, elephants and all sorts of other jungle life out in Gabon.
It’s  an excellent wildlife programme in a really untouched [...]

Ever since spy cameras came onto the market people have used them to check up on wrongdoing, either misbehaving employees or suspected cheating spouses / partners.
This is still a mainstream use for spy cameras and covert cameras - used a lot by private investigators, worried employers, concerned spouses etc.
One case a few years back in [...]

480TVL is the highest resolution for a 2.4GHz wireless camera that we have come across.  This wireless bullet camera has a built in rechargeable battery.
We would be interested to know if anyone out there has seen a higher resolution 2.4GHz wireless camera than this mini, bullet, spy camera.
The built in rechargeable battery means that this [...]

Our refurbished Nokia 3310 spy phone has been very popular recently and this low cost covert listening device has just joined our top 5 best sellers list.
The spy phone is ideal for covert audio surveillance as it’s just a refurbed Nokia 3310 model, so is very unlikely to raise any suspicion. 
The beauty of it is [...]

Can you help with any of the unolved cases shown recently on Crimewatch UK?
View the CCTV camera footage here and see if you can do your bit to help reduce, solve and help to prevent crime using security cameras in the UK.

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