1. An automated surveillance system comprising: a computing system arranged to receive a plurality of surveillance feeds from a surveillance network, each of the surveillance feeds having a geospatial reference tag that identifies a corresponding surveillance location, a profiling engine that detects characteristics of the surveillance feeds that are indicative of categorized events and classifies the identified characteristics in event records, and a response module that determines a response reaction to events documented in event records using a response index allocated to corresponding event categories.