Global & Controls

On those rare occasions when people consider security surveillance before an incident has occurred, they frequently reject it without carefully considering the options. When one professionally approaches the process of planning a system to keep a facility, either a home or office, safe, they look at the means most effective against a given threat. It is not possible to protect against every imaginable threat, because that is not cost effective, and unrealistic since not every imaginable threat can be carried out.

Our nature does not help us when it comes to taking the correct precautions to keep our residences and work environment safe. We have a hierarchy of needs that we deal with in sequence, with the needs to be able to breath, eat and excrete at the base and moving up to more complex requirements. The second tier is where we find our need to remain free of injury from our environment. The problem is that once we are established in homes and offices, we stop looking at or thinking about how vulnerable we might still remain.

The challenge is that we do not get to solve one level and then forget about it, we can move up ad down the scale depending on circumstances. The phrase defining the home as a castle is reflective of our belief that once we are home, we are safe. The same is true about our workplace where for the most part, we feel okay after arrival, though that notion has taken a considerable blow thanks to sensational workplace violence.

Even our anti terrorism advice to people who may be targets focuses mostly on the journey to and from work and home, where one is more exposed to the variety of means for the terrorist or criminal to cause an impact. We carefully explain that it is dangerous to take the same routes at the same time each day, just as we encourage people to vary their jogging or entertainment patterns, and always be vigilant about the area around them.

It is the assessment of threat that needs to be updated for the average person in difficult times. The care of builders and construction techniques used as a standard for protecting us against a level of generic threat does not account for more desperate individuals who may find themselves in situations they would never have imagined. Door and window locks, like bike locks and fences are adequate to keep the opportunistic criminal at bay, but a determined thief will only be delayed.

Since the majority of us do not need to concern ourselves so much with being abducted and used for ransom, our greatest threat is the thief who wants to take things from our homes or offices for the sole purpose of reselling it so that they can transform your valuables into cash. For that reason, high value items should be protected more carefully even in the home, such as in a safe or at least stored in a place that is not obvious. However, whether or not one uses good sense in keeping valuables out of obvious sight, a criminal will implicitly believe a home is a likely place to hunt for valuables; stopping them is not easy and can be dangerous.

In almost any criminal encounter, police will advise to give up material possessions to ensure people do not get hurt. The enduring theory is that material products can be replaced and are insignificant when compared he physical well being of the owners, and there is always the possibility of recovering the lost items. You can shift the probability of recovering your possessions in your favor with the help of a good security surveillance system.