Case Study: Craven College improves campus security with Verkada

How a U.K. College Transformed Campus Security - and Caught a Purse Thief

Craven College, a U.K. higher education institution serving 3,700+ students and 400+ staff across five campuses, needed to modernize its scattered, outdated CCTV setup. With 88 cameras spread across multiple sites, the college wanted a more secure, centralized way to manage footage and reduce the time spent searching through incidents, so it turned to Verkada for a cloud-based security platform.

Verkada deployed its camera system with cloud centralization, search analytics, and privacy/compliance controls, giving Craven College one browser-based platform for viewing, managing, and sharing footage. The impact was significant: incident review time dropped from about 4 hours to 30 minutes, an 87.5% reduction, and staff used Verkada’s search tools to identify and track a purse thief. Craven College also improved compliance with audit logs, role-based access, and two-factor authentication, while gaining easier management, automatic updates, and 24/7 support.

Craven College

Adrian Lawson

Head of IT