Technology & Innovation
Digital Ecosystem & Marketplace
A curated network that connects public safety organisations with proven technology suppliers — operating across the UK, Australia, the UAE and the Pacific.
The offer
- What it is
- A curated network of partnerships with technology companies, connecting public safety buyers with suppliers in the UK, Australia, the UAE and the Pacific — each one assessed by practitioners who have procured and operated the same class of equipment.
- Why it matters
- Public safety organisations need technology they can trust; innovators need access to a market that is hard to reach and harder to understand.
- How we deliver it
- For organisations, advice informed by operational experience on the front line. For technology partners, access to buyers, a clear view of real-world need, and qualified introductions.
- What to expect
- De-risked adoption for buyers, matched to genuine operational demand — and for partners, access to public safety buyers across the UK, Australia, the UAE and the Pacific.
Led by our Experts
We have sourced the world’s best policing and emergency services SMEs. Digital Ecosystem & Marketplace is led by Imran Aziz.
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GCG Consortium
Imran Aziz
GCG Co-Founder
Imran is a co-founder of the Global Consortium Group (GCG) and head of its Digital and IT Services. He has fifteen years in a specialised operational command role and twenty years of experience in hybrid senior operations and management roles, specialising in business development and sales execution on an international scale.
Skills & focus
- Operational command
- Business development & sales execution
- International engagement
- Technology change in policing
- Cross-border project management
Delivered by our Experts 1 supporting member
United Kingdom
The digital ecosystem
Buyers cannot easily tell which suppliers are serious, and the suppliers who are cannot easily reach them. We close that gap by knowing both sides.
For organisations, we carry advice you can trust: help choosing between technologies and de-risking adoption, informed by operational experience on the front line. For technology partners, we carry market access: public safety buyers in the UK, Australia, the UAE and the Pacific, a clear view of real-world need, and introductions matched to genuine operational demand.
The marketplace
For buyers, the marketplace is a shortcut through a crowded vendor market: every supplier we introduce has been assessed by practitioners who have bought, deployed and run the same equipment. For technology partners, it is a way into a market that is otherwise slow to enter.
The marketplace is deliberately curated. We introduce technology we would have been prepared to stake an operation on — nothing else.
Our technology and security partners
Every partnership here is named. The full list, with examples of joint work as each partner confirms them, is on our partners page.
What our partners bring to your organisation
Eighteen technology and security partners across four capabilities, grouped by what they offer. Select a capability to jump to its partners.
Capability 01
Intelligence, Forensics & Case Management
Partners whose platforms carry an investigation from lawful data access to the courtroom — digital intelligence, forensics, evidence and case management.
Cellebrite Digital intelligence — forensics, investigations and evidence.
What it is
Our digital intelligence partner. Cellebrite provides digital forensics, investigations and intelligence platforms — used, by its own account, by more than 60,000 agencies in 150 countries — helping investigators lawfully access, manage and analyse digital evidence.
Why it matters
Almost every modern investigation turns on digital evidence, and the volume is growing faster than most agencies' capacity to process it lawfully and defensibly. The tooling an agency chooses here shapes disclosure, case quality and public trust.
What you get
Cellebrite's tools, with requirements framed by practitioners who have procured and run digital forensics themselves, an honest view of whether it fits what you actually investigate, and support from evaluation through to deployment.
bdna Forensics case management — one platform from scene to court.
What it is
Our forensics case management partner. bdna provides one public safety platform for forensics, evidence and case management, connecting front-line teams directly with forensic services through a single digital workflow, and records a digital chain of custody which bdna states is built to be defensible in court.
Why it matters
Evidence that cannot show an unbroken, auditable chain of custody puts cases at risk, and fragmented workflows between the front line and forensic services cost time, money and convictions.
What you get
Access to bdna's platform through the GCG ecosystem: adoption advice grounded in how forensic submissions actually flow through an operational force, integration questions asked before procurement rather than after, and a partnership matched to genuine demand.
Capability 02
Data & AI Platforms
Partners providing the data foundations modern public safety runs on, and the tools that redact video before it is disclosed.
Snowflake Data cloud — data engineering, analytics, AI and secure collaboration at any scale.
What it is
Our data cloud partner. Snowflake provides the AI Data Cloud, one managed platform for data engineering, analytics, AI and secure collaboration — replacing separate data stores with a single, governed estate.
Why it matters
AI ambitions fail on fragmented data. Public safety organisations hold some of the most sensitive data anywhere, and need platforms that unify it without compromising security, sovereignty or governance.
What you get
Access to Snowflake's platform through the GCG ecosystem: data strategy advice from advisers currently architecting data and AI programmes in policing, a clear view of what your estate can actually support, and adoption sequenced to your governance obligations.
Pimloc AI video privacy — automated redaction for compliant disclosure.
What it is
Our AI video privacy partner. Pimloc's Secure Redact platform automatically anonymises faces and personal data in video, so CCTV, body-worn and evidential footage can be redacted at the volumes disclosure and subject access requests actually arrive in.
Why it matters
Video is now core evidence, and every hour of it carries privacy obligations. Manual redaction does not scale, and non-compliant disclosure carries legal and reputational risk.
What you get
Access to Pimloc's capability through the GCG ecosystem: advice on where automated redaction fits your disclosure workflow, realistic expectations set by practitioners who understand evidential standards, and de-risked adoption from pilot to production.
Capability 03
Operations, Response & Secure Communications
Partners equipping live operations — situational awareness and mapping, computer-aided despatch (CAD), and communications an organisation cannot afford to have compromised.
Airbox Systems Situational awareness — mapping and planning tools for live operations.
What it is
Our situational awareness partner. Airbox Systems provides situational awareness and mapping tools for desktop and mobile, built for planning, execution and after-action review — used, by its own account, by law enforcement, military, search and rescue, fire and medical emergency services worldwide.
Why it matters
In live operations the common operating picture is the difference between informed decisions and dangerous guesswork — protecting life depends on everyone seeing the same ground truth.
What you get
Access to Airbox's tools through the GCG ecosystem: advice from advisers who have commanded live operations, honest assessment of fit against your operating model, and adoption matched to genuine operational demand.
Octave Despatch & CAD — mission-critical incident management and field mobility.
What it is
Our despatch and CAD partner. Octave provides mission-critical software for emergency services — computer-aided despatch, incident management, records and field mobility — which, by its own account, helps protect more than one billion people worldwide.
Why it matters
Despatch and command-and-control systems are the backbone of emergency response at the moment of maximum pressure; systems chosen without operational insight fail precisely when they are needed most.
What you get
Access to Octave's platform through the GCG ecosystem: requirements shaped by people who have run control rooms and major incidents, genuine alternatives compared, and procurement de-risked before commitment.
Salt Communications Secure communications — closed, fully controlled messaging, voice and video.
What it is
Our secure communications partner. Salt Communications provides secure mobile and desktop communications for organisations that cannot afford to be compromised — messaging, voice, video and file sharing in a closed, fully controlled environment — used, by its own account, by police, military, government and enterprise customers, and run either as a hosted service or on the organisation's own premises.
Why it matters
Operational communications are a target. Sensitive operations need channels the organisation fully controls, with assurance that stands up to hostile scrutiny.
What you get
Access to Salt's platform through the GCG ecosystem: deployment advice grounded in operational security practice, a clear view of the SaaS versus on-premise trade-offs for your threat model, and adoption de-risked from evaluation to live use.
Capability 04
Protective Security & Safety Technology
Partners who protect people, premises and critical infrastructure in the physical world: guarding, detection and surveillance, monitored alarms, safe restraint, resilient connectivity, and the training the people on post depend on.
Etimad Border and infrastructure security — mission-critical protection for borders, installations and people.
What it is
Our border and critical infrastructure partner. Etimad protects borders, critical infrastructure and transport networks across the UAE and the wider region. It brings sensing and monitoring systems, intelligence-led policing tools and cybersecurity into one place, so an agency can see a developing threat in the physical and digital domains at the same time.
Why it matters
Borders, transport networks and critical national infrastructure are the assets a state cannot afford to lose, and the threat against them is now simultaneously physical and digital. Protecting them takes integrated sensing, intelligence and cyber capability, not a collection of separate systems bought one at a time.
What you get
Access to Etimad's capability through the GCG ecosystem: requirements framed by practitioners who have commanded border, transport and infrastructure protection operations, honest advice on fit against your operational need, and de-risked adoption from evaluation through deployment.
Mitie Intelligence-led security at national scale — guarding and systems maintenance across the UK.
What it is
Our national-scale security partner. Mitie is the UK's largest intelligence-led security organisation, deploying more than 25,000 security personnel and maintaining over 73,000 fire and security systems for clients across government, defence, healthcare, transport and critical infrastructure — combining data-led threat assessment from its central intelligence hub with frontline protection through its Safer Communities initiative.
Why it matters
Protecting a large, dispersed estate is a coverage problem before it is a technology problem: the threat picture has to be assembled centrally and acted on locally, consistently, every hour of every day. Very few providers can do both at national scale.
What you get
Access to Mitie's capability through the GCG ecosystem: scope tested by people who have run large security operations themselves, a clear-eyed view of where national-scale delivery helps and where it does not, and support through evaluation and mobilisation.
SecuriGroup Manned guarding and security operations — UK and Ireland, SIA-approved.
What it is
Our manned guarding and security operations partner. SecuriGroup provides SIA-approved manned guarding, close protection and event security across the UK and Ireland, with its own security operations centre and intelligence support behind the officers on post. SecuriGroup reports being ranked in the top 1% of companies accredited under the SIA Approved Contractor Scheme.
Why it matters
Guarding is only as good as the people on post and the operations centre behind them. Accreditation, officer retention and intelligence support are what separate a security presence from genuine protection — and they are the hardest things to assess from a tender document.
What you get
Access to SecuriGroup's capability through the GCG ecosystem: requirements written by practitioners who know what good looks like on a post, honest advice on the guarding model your risk actually justifies, and support through selection and mobilisation.
CYS Security Security, keyholding and compliance training — SIA Approved Contractor, 24/7 control centre.
What it is
Our keyholding and compliance partner. CYS Security provides manned guarding, keyholding, alarm response and event security under the SIA Approved Contractor Scheme, alongside health and safety compliance support and training written for the site it is delivered on, with a control centre and helpdesk staffed around the clock.
Why it matters
Out-of-hours response is where site security is won or lost: an alarm nobody attends, or a keyholder who cannot get there in time, turns a minor incident into a serious loss. The health and safety obligations sitting alongside it rarely get the same attention until something goes wrong.
What you get
Access to CYS Security's capability through the GCG ecosystem: response arrangements assessed against how incidents actually unfold, the compliance and training questions asked before contract rather than after, and a partnership matched to genuine demand.
VARS Technology Number-plate recognition and site protection — forecourts and retail estates.
What it is
Our forecourt and retail protection partner. VARS Technology protects people, premises and stock on UK forecourts and retail sites using automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR), facial recognition and parking management technology, and shares alerts between sites so an operator can act on what another site has already seen. VARS reports covering more than 1,500 forecourts and several hundred retail sites.
Why it matters
Retail crime is repeat business: the same vehicles and the same individuals move between sites, and an operator who cannot share what one site has learned with the next starts from zero every time. Staff safety, not only stock loss, is what is at stake.
What you get
Access to VARS Technology's capability through the GCG ecosystem: adoption advice grounded in how offending actually moves across a retail estate, the data protection questions asked before deployment rather than after, and a de-risked rollout.
Ads-Europe CCTV, access control and detection — healthcare, retail and public sector estates.
What it is
Our detection and monitoring partner. Ads-Europe installs and maintains CCTV, access control, facial recognition and number-plate recognition systems across the UK and Europe, for healthcare, retail and public sector estates, and maintains them once they are in — which is the half that determines whether the footage is there when it is needed.
Why it matters
Detection systems fail quietly. Cameras drift out of focus, access rights outlive the people they were granted to, and nobody notices until the footage is needed. Installation is the easy half of the problem; maintenance is what makes an estate's evidence trustworthy.
What you get
Access to Ads-Europe's capability through the GCG ecosystem: system requirements framed against the incidents you actually need to evidence, maintenance and lifecycle questions asked at procurement, and support through deployment.
Kings Secure Technologies Monitored alarm and security systems — 24-hour monitored response from its own centre.
What it is
Our monitored alarm partner. Kings Secure Technologies designs, installs and monitors alarm and security systems for homes and businesses across the UK, from its own monitoring centre, with a response arrangement that runs 24 hours a day.
Why it matters
An unmonitored alarm is only a noise. What turns detection into protection is the monitoring centre behind it and the response it can summon — and the difference between a good arrangement and a poor one only becomes visible on the night it matters.
What you get
Access to Kings Secure Technologies' capability through the GCG ecosystem: monitoring and response arrangements tested against your risk, honest advice on fit, and de-risked adoption from evaluation through installation.
Soteria Covert Solutions Covert surveillance and threat detection — evidence handled to the statutory framework.
What it is
Our covert surveillance partner. Soteria Covert Solutions provides covert surveillance, counter-surveillance and behaviour detection for law firms, corporations and venue operators, using specialists trained in government service. Soteria states that its tasking and evidence handling are run to the requirements of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, UK GDPR and the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.
Why it matters
Covert work that is not legally defensible is worse than no work at all: the evidence collapses and the organisation that commissioned it carries the reputational damage. Compliance is not paperwork in this discipline — it is the product.
What you get
Access to Soteria's capability through the GCG ecosystem: tasking scoped by people who have commissioned and overseen covert operations lawfully, the legal and ethical thresholds established before deployment rather than argued afterwards, and intelligence you can rely on.
Safe Restraints Oceania Safe restraint and de-escalation — the WRAP, CART and HARNESS.
What it is
Our safe restraint partner. Safe Restraints Oceania designs restraint and control equipment for law enforcement, corrections, healthcare and security personnel — the WRAP, the CART and the HARNESS — which the manufacturer states are engineered to bring a struggle to an end quickly and to lower the risk of injury to the person restrained and to the staff involved. Equipment is one control; training and use-of-force policy carry the rest.
Why it matters
Restraint is the point at which policing, custody and healthcare carry their sharpest risk to life. Deaths and serious injuries in restraint are among the most damaging events any organisation can face — for the individual, for the staff involved and for public confidence.
What you get
Access to Safe Restraints Oceania's capability through the GCG ecosystem: equipment assessed by practitioners who have owned use-of-force policy, the training and governance questions asked alongside the procurement rather than after it, and de-risked adoption.
Metricell Network connectivity and assurance — the wireless networks response depends on.
What it is
Our connectivity assurance partner. Metricell designs, tests and manages the wireless networks that public safety operations, emergency services and critical infrastructure depend on, and monitors coverage continuously through its SmartNetwork platform, so an operator finds a gap in a test rather than at an incident.
Why it matters
Every modern response capability — despatch, mapping, body-worn video, secure messaging — assumes the network is there. When coverage fails at the incident, the whole technology stack above it fails with it, and nobody finds out until the day it counts.
What you get
Access to Metricell's capability through the GCG ecosystem: coverage and resilience assessed against your actual operational geography, assurance requirements framed before procurement, and support through deployment.
Nu-ology Safety and security training — Highfield-accredited, blended delivery.
What it is
Our front-line training partner. Nu-ology trains safety, security and front-line staff in the public and private sectors through e-learning, classroom sessions and tabletop exercises. Nu-ology states that its courses are Highfield-accredited.
Why it matters
Technology and procedure only work through the people using them under pressure. Training is one of the cheapest parts of a security programme and usually the first thing cut — and the gap that creates shows up in the incident, not in the audit.
What you get
Access to Nu-ology's capability through the GCG ecosystem: training needs assessed against the incidents your people actually face, accreditation and delivery-mode questions settled early, and a partnership matched to genuine demand.