10 Reasons to Add Live Video Surveillance to Your Security Guard Patrol
By adding live video surveillance with deterrents, security managers can actually increase security guard effectiveness while reducing overall costs. Here are 10 ways to increase the impact of your security guard patrol while reducing your overall costs with live video surveillance with siren and strobe deterrents.
1) Cost Savings Through Force Multiplication
Live video surveillance with strobe and siren deterrents acts as a force multiplier. This means it drastically increases the impact of security guard patrols to the point where you can reduce the number of guards required – and in some cases eliminate them all together. If you add live video surveillance with deterrents to a site that requires 10 guards, on average you can reduce required guards to 1-2.
2) An Added Layer of Physical Security and Deterrence
Security guard patrols have routines and patterns that thieves observe and then take advantage of. By adding a layer of live video surveillance with deterrents, thieves will be unable to capitalize on patrol patterns or even unexpected events or distractions that may reduce guard patrol saturation.
3) Increased Guard Competence
When you reduce the total number of guards, you can use the newly available resources on guards with higher levels of experience and competence. Highly experienced guards, combined with live video surveillance with remote deterrents, delivers superior security at a reduced cost.
4) More Thorough and Continual Physical Protection
Guards have lapses in coverage, and they can’t be at all places at one time on a site. Live video surveillance provides a continual presence across all locations of a site. Further, camera positions can provide access to rooftops and other dangerous locations that criminals could exploit.
5) Improved Detection Through Infrared and Motion Sensing Technologies
Live video monitors have the advantage of motion sensing and infrared technologies. On sites with low ambient lighting, or with extreme weather conditions such as dense fog, infrared and motion detection can deliver a security advantage.
6) Improved Deterrence with Sirens and Strobes
When intruders experience sirens and strobe lights they run (watch them here). Adding a layer of live video surveillance with deterrents to a guard patrol massively increases the deterrence factor of your site.
7) Increases Effectiveness of Guard Checkpoint Tour Systems
There are many complaints surrounding guard checkpoint and tour systems. Many claim that they encourage robotic behavior, and a reduced situational awareness with the objective being to “hit the checkpoint” rather than taking the time to observe the site. Checkpoints are sometimes a mandated requirement, but live video surveillance with deterrents counteracts their deficiencies.
8) Monitor Guard Effectiveness
When guards know they are being watched, their effectiveness remains steady. Keep your guard patrols at highest effectiveness – have your live surveillance team regularly report on the quality and frequency of patrols.
9) Remote Threat Detection and Assessment Makes Guards More Effective
Threat assessment is possible from a remote location. When live video surveillance teams assist with threat detection and assessment they dramatically increase guard effectiveness by reducing the effort required, and by only bringing them to bear in threat-positive situations.
10) Keep Guards Focused on High Threat Areas
Get the maximum impact from your guards by keeping them focused on highest threat areas where even fast police response isn’t enough. Let the live video surveillance with deterrents protect you everywhere else.
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