Stuart Ward

Stuart Ward was appointed as the Force Architectural Liaison Officer for Fife Constabulary in 1996 following 10 years service within Fife Council's Property Services Department. The role of ALO involves using Police Knowledge of Criminal activity and techniques, to provide advice for proposed and existing developments, in order to design out opportunities for crime and anti-social activity from all aspects of the built environment. Stuart also has a remit for CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), which is utilised as a tool to assist in reducing the opportunity for crime. In this remit for CCTV Stuart worked as the technical expert on the initial phase of the Fife public space CCTV System, which is the largest single fibre network geographically in Europe. In 2004 he was the project manager for the system expansion to the system. He continues to provide the technical advice and support for the system and recently oversaw the procurement and installation of the I-Witness Digital recording and management system, where all 101 cameras are now recorded digitally. Stuart is currently engaged as an adviser in a European Union funded project led by An Garda Siochana to formulate a guidance document highlighting best practice from European Partner Nations. This involves travelling to participating nations on study visits in order to ascertain at first hand successful and appropriate Crime Prevention principles.