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Hello I work for a business that use standalone Hikvision DVRs. To transfer footage to the police we currently export to DVD or CD and police are meant to collect. However the police are increasingly requesting footage to be uploaded to their websites, and are less frequently picking up the footage on discs that we’ve exported. I have been asked if USB memory sticks can be used to export the footage onto and then insert the USB memory sticks into a computer to upload to the police. However our company have blocked use of USB memory sticks to prevent risk of viruses. Can anyone think of any innovative ways of getting footage from standalone DVRs to the police websites? thank you.

Thanks for all responses thus far. The company I work for is based in the UK. the Hikvision DVRs are standalone and due to the age of them our IT don’t want them connected to our IT network due to security risks. I considered allowing staff to video the monitors showing the footage and then uploading to the police but our company doesn’t allow personally owned mobile devices to be used to process sensitive information such as CCTV footage. The police have sometimes used their body worn cameras to take video directly from the monitor but this is time consuming and they prefer we upload footage to their upload websites. I tried tethering my company mobile phone via USB to see if the footage could be exported directly to the phone but the Hikvision DVR doesn’t see the phone as a USB storage device. I tried this with both an iphone and android. I wonder if a USB hub could be used that both the DVR and phone could see the USB storage? If I could cheaply create a way to export footage to a phone we could buy some cheap android phones but Hikvision is only seeing a traditional USB flash drive. I also imagine it wouldn’t recognise an encrypted USB flash drive. Is it time to modernise the kit and get it connected?