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Hi all!
I'm new to the forum so will post something in the new members section in a moment but I was just looking for some advice in regards to CCTV & Alarm Installation qualifications.
To cut a long story shortISH me old man has ran an Electrical firm for the last 20 years which does well and has a good customer base but he is pretty old school and doesn't touch CCTV (he isn't keen on the system side). I can't count the amount of times he has been asked to fit CCTV systems and he ends up recommending some firm and in my opinion is missing a trick by not branching out.
Anyhow I've suggested to him that I would like to get involved and eventually start installing CCTV for him. I'm not a complete beginner having worked as a mate for him for 5 years when leaving school before going to work for BT & Sky working on the PSTN side of things. I also hold an IT Technician qualification & a City & Guilds 7202 (level 1 which I did to just refresh on bits). I'm obviously a novice when it comes to CCTV though and was looking around to see if there are any qualifications that you can do just to help with knowledge. The only one I've found that fits in with my current working schedule is a BTEC in CCTV systems on a website called Tavcom? Has anyone heard of these guys or should they really be called Tavcon? I can't even find them on trust pilot.
I noticed they also do an intruder alarm BTEC which I thought might be interesting but again I'm not sure if they can be trusted?
Here is a link to their website
CCTV System Design BTEC Level 5 Diploma - Tavcom Training - https://www.tavcom.com/distance-learning-courses/dl-1/
Any help would be appreciated, I know most of you guys on here know far more than I do so I'm interested to hear your opinions!
Cheers
I'm new to the forum so will post something in the new members section in a moment but I was just looking for some advice in regards to CCTV & Alarm Installation qualifications.
To cut a long story shortISH me old man has ran an Electrical firm for the last 20 years which does well and has a good customer base but he is pretty old school and doesn't touch CCTV (he isn't keen on the system side). I can't count the amount of times he has been asked to fit CCTV systems and he ends up recommending some firm and in my opinion is missing a trick by not branching out.
Anyhow I've suggested to him that I would like to get involved and eventually start installing CCTV for him. I'm not a complete beginner having worked as a mate for him for 5 years when leaving school before going to work for BT & Sky working on the PSTN side of things. I also hold an IT Technician qualification & a City & Guilds 7202 (level 1 which I did to just refresh on bits). I'm obviously a novice when it comes to CCTV though and was looking around to see if there are any qualifications that you can do just to help with knowledge. The only one I've found that fits in with my current working schedule is a BTEC in CCTV systems on a website called Tavcom? Has anyone heard of these guys or should they really be called Tavcon? I can't even find them on trust pilot.
I noticed they also do an intruder alarm BTEC which I thought might be interesting but again I'm not sure if they can be trusted?
Here is a link to their website
CCTV System Design BTEC Level 5 Diploma - Tavcom Training - https://www.tavcom.com/distance-learning-courses/dl-1/
Any help would be appreciated, I know most of you guys on here know far more than I do so I'm interested to hear your opinions!
Cheers