We have been involved with PACE compliant (Police and Criminal Evidence Act) video and audio interview recording systems for over forty years. Our systems can be used for recording suspect interviews in police stations, child and vulnerable witness video interview recording. They are also suitable for legal, disciplinary, HR, recruitment, and corporate interview recording.
The systems comply with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) Private British Standard CJS2004 and feature ISDR (Interactive Secure Digital Recording technology).
We can supply, install and support a wide range of hardware- and software-based systems including:
- Fixed video interview recorder
- Fixed audio interview recorder
- Mobile video interview recorder
- Mobile audio interview recorder
- Transcription systems
Our interview systems offer the following recording media options:
- Hard disk
- USB
- CD
- DVD
- Network storage
- Cloud Storage
Video and audio interview recorders
Paragon offers a complete range of Video and Audio Interview Recording systems that allow the seamless capture and transfer of recorded data to your choice of media or to a network location locally or across a country.
The interview recording systems comprise robust desk or wall mount units and lightweight portable systems together with all necessary camera and microphone accessories are available.
Paragon also offers software-based recording systems for deployment on your workstations, devices or networks.
The interview recording software offers:
- Integrations into 3rd party Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) and Digital Evidence Management Systems (DEMS) together with any customer specific or preferred Management Storage System via a customer enabled API.
- Flawless operation with on the market media watchers.
- Customer specific metadata input workflows which enable all mandatory data to be input - providing efficient storage, case management and search retrieval for replay of all interview recordings.
- Encrypted recordings with checksums attached to each captured recording file assuring end to end protection and integrity of all recorded files.
- Easy to use touchscreen controls with intuitive Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) providing simple operator metadata input workflows.
- Prominent ‘RECORD’ ‘PAUSE’ ‘STOP’ control icons and User Messages which are supported by real-time status displays – LIVE image, Time and Date, Elapsed Time, Remaining Time, Microphone Audio Level, Picture in Picture (PIP) controls, Network Connectivity, Hard Disk Space supported by audible and visual alarms.
- On screen Pan, Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) camera controls together with ‘Remote Monitoring’ over the network.
Transcription
Paragon’s a multi-format Transcription Player Software available as a device licence. It offers:
- User-friendly operation with universal playback by foot pedal control.
- Configurable playback functionality
- Operation with digitally recorded evidence from Network/File locations, CD, DVD, and other media.
- Supports for Body Worn Video replay, 999 Recordings, audio and video interview recordings
- Multiple format support
Supported Video formats:
Cinepak, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/MPEG HEVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo 3&4, Theora, VP5, VP6, VP8, VP9
Supported Audio Formats:
AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MOD, MP3, PLS, QCP, QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Vorbis, WAV, WavPack, WMA (WMA 1/2)
Supported Container Formats:
3GP, ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, FLV, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS,PVA, MP3) AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM, DVD-VIDEO, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB.