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Video Quality in Public Safety (VQiPS) Resources

By Carolyn Ford, circa 2013

Anyone who has seen video action break up or block out while watching a live televised sporting event knows the frustration of missing a key play because of a poor picture. For public safety practitioners using incident video services, however, a clear picture could mean the difference between life and death.

Through the Video Quality in Public Safety (VQiPS) initiative, public safety practitioners, Federal partners, manufacturers, and representatives of standards making bodies worked to improve the way in which video technologies serve the public safety community. Produced by the FBI’s Operational Technology Division, this demonstrative scenario (archived original page here: Caught on Camera, Best Practices for CCTV Systems) illustrates the use of CCTV systems for maximum effect.

SNAPSHOT

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with ITS to form the Video Quality in Public Safety (VQiPS) Working Group. Many entities and organizations directly contributed to its efforts over the following decade.

RESOURCES

The VQiPS group developed these resources:

• VQiPS Guide to Defining Video Quality Requirements.

• Digital Video Quality Handbook (published by DHS OIC)

• Use the VQiPS Recommendations Tool for Video Requirements.

• A Video Quality Glossary published to Wikipedia.

• Check our outside list of CCTV resources.

• Review reports from past VQiPS workshops and conferences.