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The council's own recruitment copy repeats the trio in the past tense: \"has brought together the Emergency Control Centre, Traffic Management, and Community Safety (CCTV) Control Rooms\". The Southern Construction Framework record supplies the single floor of the Temple Street headquarters; the TEC Quality register and the TSA member directory both give the postal address as 2nd Floor, 100 Temple Street.", "caveat": "The Traffic Control Centre was described as the traffic control service in the 2020 trade-press piece and as Traffic Management in the recruitment copy; the same team, named three ways.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-76c53fd2d52e9b16", "field": "snippet", "text": "opening the Operations Centre on 16 October 2017", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c49059b0932f22bb", "src-33cb3720d23281d1" ], "supportNote": "The University of Bristol release of 23 October 2017 says the Smart City Operations Centre \"opened one week ago (16 October)\". The construction framework record independently gives completion in October 2017.", "caveat": "Sources elsewhere give the official opening as October 2017 without a day; 16 October is the date in the contemporaneous release and is treated here as the operational opening, not a ceremony.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-7d6e58c9fdbc3d1d", "field": "snippet", "text": "The same floor answers the council's telecare alarms: the UK certification register for technology-enabled care lists Bristol City Council's monitoring at the centre's address", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-bd4a13375c701849", "src-c49059b0932f22bb", "src-910c07f3f5fcca47" ], "supportNote": "TEC Quality's register of organisations certified to the Quality Standards Framework carries the row \"Bristol City Council, Bristol Operations Centre, 2nd Floor 100 Temple Street, Bristol Avon BS1 6HT, United Kingdom\" with scope \"TEC Monitoring\", read on 25 August 2026 — a third party placing the council's telecare monitoring at the Operations Centre. The 2017 release independently lists \"telecare, alarm and security monitoring and lone worker support\" among the centre's services, and the council's own Careline page confirms the service is council-run and answered from a control centre.", "caveat": "The register gives no certification or expiry date, so it evidences a current listing rather than a dated award.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-93464a0d1d0db344", "field": "snippet", "text": "Both halves already ran on fibre and ducting the council had bought from the cable firm Rediffusion around 2000", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-f19aa138744b1650" ], "supportNote": "The BBC report of the October 2015 cabinet decision states that \"Bristol City Council owns the underground cable network which feeds cables around the city for traffic monitoring and other services such as pendant alarms for the elderly\" and that \"Fifteen years ago, the council bought the network of fibre and ducting from the digital cable firm, Rediffusion\" — fifteen years before October 2015.", "caveat": "\"Around 2000\" is derived from the report's \"fifteen years ago\" relative to October 2015; no source gives an exact purchase date.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-f41c069d9ea2f7d0", "field": "snippet", "text": "the 2015 cabinet decision to renew that network and merge the rooms was to be recouped by leasing spare capacity to telecoms firms", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-f19aa138744b1650" ], "supportNote": "Same BBC report: the mayor approved the plan at the cabinet meeting of Tuesday 6 October 2015; \"The network will be upgraded and the council's three in-house CCTV systems will be housed in one control centre. Costs will be recouped by renting spare network space to the telecoms market.\"", "caveat": "This is the plan as approved in 2015. No source found confirms how much was actually recouped, and the entry does not claim it was.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2e808fe526d9e93a", "field": "snippet", "text": "It is staffed 24 hours a day", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-35950da5b70bcc4e", "src-910c07f3f5fcca47", "src-32c87db9bc780752" ], "supportNote": "The Local Democracy Reporting Service copy of 18 June 2025 says Bristol's operations centre is staffed around the clock, monitoring public spaces, managing traffic and acting as a control centre for major incidents. The council's Careline page states the service runs \"24 hours a day, 365 days a year\", and the council's recruitment copy describes \"a 24/7/365 days a year operational space\" with 12-hour day and night shifts.", "caveat": "The find string is taken from the council's Careline page; the 2025 confirmation lives on bristol247.com, which returns HTTP 403 to automated reading.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-5a931a5008d96e89", "field": "impact", "text": "No independent evaluation of the centre has been published", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-cd4486c4bf7575c2" ], "supportNote": "A negative finding. Searches of the council site, its committee portal, the trade and local press turned up no evaluation, audit or performance report on the Operations Centre itself; the council's public CCTV page carries the subject-access route and the retention rule but no statistics. The one external audit found touches only the telecare service (see the TEC Quality claim). The council's committee portal (democracy.bristol.gov.uk) returns HTTP 403 to automated reading, so an unlisted committee paper cannot be ruled out.", "caveat": "An absence established by search, not by a source stating it. The council's committee portal blocks automated reading, so this is a finding about what is discoverable, not a claim that no document exists.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-879b66c3456f998c", "field": "impact", "text": "camera locations go out as an open dataset — 1,532 points when the layer was queried in August 2026", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-72ba5b37935e838c" ], "supportNote": "The council publishes \"Council CCTV cameras\" on its open data portal with publisher \"Bristol City Council\"; the council's own CCTV page links a public map of the same layer. The ArcGIS service behind the dataset (maps2.bristol.gov.uk/server2/rest/services/ext/ll_community_and_safety/MapServer/0) answered returnCountOnly with 1,532 on 25 August 2026, repeated twice; sampled rows carry location strings such as \"Lamb Street Bus Stop PTZ, St Jude's\".", "caveat": "The count is a live query result, not a printed figure, hence no locator string. It counts points in the published layer, which is not the same as the number of cameras the centre monitors — the dataset description says the internal version also records ownership and maintenance responsibility.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-bee34e2c7be3eca0", "field": "impact", "text": "the licence limits published attributes to location, so the file does not say which cameras anyone is watching", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-72ba5b37935e838c" ], "supportNote": "The dataset's licence field reads: \"Licence : Publication on externally facing websites must limit attribute information to Camera location only.\" Its description says the attributes include \"reference numbers and information on camera make, monitoring, ownership and maintainence responsibilities\" — none of which appear in the public layer, whose only substantive field is \"Camera Location\".", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-1296c55f049b736b", "field": "impact", "text": "Recorded CCTV images are kept for up to 28 days and ANPR data for two years", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-e206947d64747ecb", "src-cd4486c4bf7575c2" ], "supportNote": "The Operations Centre privacy notice lists retention as \"1. Recorded CCTV images are stored for up to 28 days. 2. ANPR Data is stored for 2 years, as research projects often compare previous years with the current year.\" The council's public CCTV page repeats the 28 days: \"we only keep CCTV images for 28 days\".", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-ef50555ee86ef7fa", "field": "impact", "text": "TEC Quality, a UKAS-accredited certification body, lists the Operations Centre address as certified for TEC Monitoring", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-bd4a13375c701849" ], "supportNote": "The certified-organisations register states that the listed organisations \"have been certified to the Quality Standards Framework\", audited by TEC Quality Ltd, and displays a UKAS accreditation symbol. The Bristol row gives the Operations Centre address with scope \"TEC Monitoring\".", "caveat": "Scope is monitoring only. Several other councils in the same register additionally carry \"Assessment of & Installation of TEC, Response Services\", so the certificate covers the control room, not the assessment or the visit that follows an alarm.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2a64bec2847cafeb", "field": "impact", "text": "told its audit committee every quarter from summer 2023 that Bristol's ability to respond to a major emergency could likely be overwhelmed, with a civil contingency team of three", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-35950da5b70bcc4e" ], "supportNote": "The Local Democracy Reporting Service copy states that audit committee members have received reports every three months since summer 2023 saying it is 'likely' that the authority's ability to respond to major emergencies could be overwhelmed, and quotes director of management of place Patsy Mellor: \"Bristol is a city of events and a city of protests and we have a very, very small civil contingency team of only three people\", one of whom is on duty 24 hours a day. Two further posts were funded at budget-setting.", "caveat": "This is the council's own risk rating of its civil contingency function, not a judgement on the control room; the same report says two further posts were funded. The host returns HTTP 403 to automated reading, so no locator could be taken and the wording was established through search results.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-9015398dad1dd4bb", "field": "lesson", "text": "traffic monitoring and pendant alarms already shared one council-owned network", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-f19aa138744b1650" ], "supportNote": "The BBC report states that the council \"owns the underground cable network which feeds cables around the city for traffic monitoring and other services such as pendant alarms for the elderly\" — the two functions named on the same network, in the same sentence.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-e488626faaa9d13a", "field": "lesson", "text": "the council's principal UTMC engineer said her team ran the traffic system from home through a hosted service", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-16a4e8ec9116b9be" ], "supportNote": "Bristol City Council's principal UTMC engineer Jackie Davies is quoted: \"Because the hosted systems from Siemens Mobility can be accessed from anywhere, our team doesn't need to be in the control centre to operate effectively. In fact we are all quite used to working from home and can operate just as efficiently, even if we are miles apart.\"", "caveat": "Published in a trade magazine under the byline of the supplier's managing director; the quotation is attributed to the council's own engineer, and the entry treats it as the council speaking, in a supplier-authored setting.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-62b41c648f042c36", "field": "lesson", "text": "due to data protection regulations they were not able to access CCTV pictures remotely", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-16a4e8ec9116b9be" ], "supportNote": "Same quotation, continued: \"The only obstacle we had to overcome was that, due to data protection regulations, we are not able to access CCTV pictures remotely. So if we needed to, we called on colleagues from other teams who had to work from the centre to be our eyes on the ground.\"", "caveat": "The entry paraphrases the first person of the quotation into reported speech; the source wording is the find string.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-c49059b0932f22bb", "title": "University of Bristol (partner institution, 23 October 2017)", "url": "https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2017/october/smart-city.html", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bristol.ac.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-4fd4630883f91d34", "clm-76c53fd2d52e9b16", "clm-7d6e58c9fdbc3d1d" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2017-10-23", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Carries the opening date (\"opened one week ago (16 October)\") and the verbatim scope: the centre \"brings together and integrates the council's Emergency Control Centre, Traffic Control Centre and Community Safety (CCTV) Control Rooms for the first time along with other citizen service providers\", plus \"telecare, alarm and security monitoring and lone worker support with almost 60,000 welfare and telecare calls received every month\". Deputy Mayor Craig Cheney is quoted saying the centre \"links into the city's high speed fibre network through Bristol Is Open\" — the sentence that keeps the two projects distinct.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-f19aa138744b1650", "title": "BBC News (media, 6 October 2015)", "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-34458908", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bbc.co.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-93464a0d1d0db344", "clm-f41c069d9ea2f7d0", "clm-9015398dad1dd4bb" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2015-10-06", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Cabinet decision of 6 October 2015 under mayor George Ferguson. States that the council owns the underground cable network feeding \"traffic monitoring and other services such as pendant alarms for the elderly\", that \"the council's three in-house CCTV systems will be housed in one control centre\", that \"a new control room will be set up at Temple Street\", that the council \"bought the network of fibre and ducting from the digital cable firm, Rediffusion\" fifteen years earlier, and that costs \"will be recouped by renting spare network space to the telecoms market\".", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-e206947d64747ecb", "title": "Bristol City Council — Operations Centre CCTV privacy notice (official, V4.4)", "url": "https://www.bristol.gov.uk/files/documents/945-operation-centre-subject-access-request-process-for-cctv-footage/file", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bristol.gov.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-1296c55f049b736b" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "The Operations Centre's own privacy notice. Bristol City Council is the data controller; the data collected includes \"vehicle details via ANPR\"; \"Recorded CCTV images are stored for up to 28 days\" and \"ANPR Data is stored for 2 years\". Names the recipients it may share with (Avon and Somerset Police, other forces, emergency services, HSE, insurers, First Group, Ashton Gate Stadium, National Highways, local universities, Category 1 responders under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004) and its processors (Johnson Controls for video management software; Chroma Vision for cameras and fibre). Complaint route is the ICO. Ends \"V4.4\"; the document states no date.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-72ba5b37935e838c", "title": "Bristol City Council — Council CCTV cameras open dataset (official)", "url": "https://opendata.bristol.gov.uk/datasets/bcc::council-cctv-cameras", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "opendata.bristol.gov.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-879b66c3456f998c", "clm-bee34e2c7be3eca0" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2016-11-22", "updatedAt": "2025-09-05", "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Publisher Bristol City Council. Described as \"CCTV Camera point locations. Attributes include reference numbers and information on camera make, monitoring, ownership and maintainence responsibilities.\" The licence field reads \"Publication on externally facing websites must limit attribute information to Camera location only\", and the public layer accordingly exposes only a location string. The ArcGIS service behind it (maps2.bristol.gov.uk .../ll_community_and_safety/MapServer/0) returned a feature count of 1,532 on 25 August 2026. Catalogue metadata gives issued 2016-11-22 and modified 2025-09-05.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-bd4a13375c701849", "title": "TEC Quality — QSF certified organisations register (certification body)", "url": "https://www.tecquality.org.uk/certified-organisations", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "tecquality.org.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-7d6e58c9fdbc3d1d", "clm-ef50555ee86ef7fa" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Register of organisations certified to the Quality Standards Framework, audited by TEC Quality Ltd, which the page presents as UKAS-accredited. The Bristol row reads \"Bristol City Council, Bristol Operations Centre, 2nd Floor 100 Temple Street, Bristol Avon BS1 6HT, United Kingdom\" with scope \"TEC Monitoring\" — independent confirmation that the council's technology-enabled-care monitoring sits at the Operations Centre address, and the only external audit of any part of the centre found. Note the scope is monitoring only: several other councils on the same register also carry \"Assessment of & Installation of TEC, Response Services\". The register states no dates; read 25 August 2026.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-16a4e8ec9116b9be", "title": "Highways Magazine — Bristol traffic control analysis by Siemens Mobility's ITS managing director (trade press, supplier-authored)", "url": "https://www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/Analysis-Smooth-sailing-for-Bristol-traffic-control/8692", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "highwaysmagazine.co.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-e488626faaa9d13a", "clm-62b41c648f042c36" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2020-11-18", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Bylined by Wilke Reints, managing director of Siemens Mobility Limited's Intelligent Traffic Systems business — supplier-authored, so treated as trade press rather than an independent account. Its value is the quoted Bristol City Council principal UTMC engineer, Jackie Davies: \"due to data protection regulations, we are not able to access CCTV pictures remotely\". Also states the traffic control service \"was relaunched in 2017 as part of a brand new, integrated operations centre\" bringing together \"three disparate control centres\", that the facility houses traffic control, emergency control and community safety (CCTV) control rooms plus telecare, alarm and security monitoring and lone-worker support, and that Siemens won the 2017 contract with the system launched that June (cloud-hosted UTC running SCOOT, plus ANPR-based network performance, VMS, car park and disruption modules).", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-35950da5b70bcc4e", "title": "Bristol24/7 / Local Democracy Reporting Service (media, 18 June 2025)", "url": "https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristol-emergency-planning-team-strengthened/", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bristol247.com", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-2e808fe526d9e93a", "clm-2a64bec2847cafeb" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2025-06-18", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Local Democracy Reporting Service copy on a council audit committee. Reports that Bristol's operations centre is staffed around the clock, with the team monitoring public spaces and managing traffic, a central hub for CCTV cameras across the city and a control centre for major incidents; that audit committee members have received reports every three months since summer 2023 saying it is 'likely' the authority's ability to respond to major emergencies could be overwhelmed; that director of management of place Patsy Mellor described \"a very, very small civil contingency team of only three people\", one of them on duty 24 hours a day; and that a growth bid for two further officers was approved at budget-setting. 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