What types of technology are available to help a pubwatch?
There are radio systems to help instant communication between watch members which are sometimes linked into the police or Town Centre CCTV control rooms. Watches that cannot afford to utilise such systems for quick communication have some other alternatives these include, text paging on mobiles or normal paging schemes and in rural areas with only a few premises in the scheme they operate a ring round system using the normal phone. In this computer age there are now schemes that are totally computer based such as Pubwatch Online but these require every site in the watch to have access to the internet and are accessed using secure passwords to meet Data Protection requirements. In addition for premises that have controlled entry there are computer schemes that register users and check them to see if they are banned and to ensure any ID produced to prove they are over 18 is legitimate. The same system provides a marketing tool for the premises. Where there may be a problem with weapons o
