Some might argue that in a gated community, security surveillance is an unnecessary additive, the closed and combination protected fencing is enough. This belies the shocking number of incidents that occur despite these gates and fencing compounds. There are simply to many ways people can still get in. Residents can be tricked into revealing the combination, a trailing vehicle will almost always be able to enter with a true resident, and failing all that, one need only to look carefully at the combination pad to find the number pushed most often. These gates feed a false sense of security that we all develop about our places of work and residence.
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.
Once we have selected and established a place of residence and found our work environment, we tend to become lulled into a calm belief that those places are our refuge, wherein we may remain without concern for our safety. It is a rare individual that performs a thorough assessment of the home or office with an eye to identify vulnerabilities on a routine and recurring basis. The problem with that is with a turbulent and economically depressed period such as we are experiencing now, our paradigms about criminal behaviour need to shift.
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.
But without advance knowledge that a specific place has been targeted, a determined effort to break into a home or office is very difficult to prevent, not to mention both expensive and dangerous. Confronting a criminal is a very bad idea with a high risk of injury. Authorities will always suggest giving the criminal what they want to prevent fatalities or injuries. The best approach is to invest in security surveillance to increase the probability of recovering the possessions.
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.
Once we have selected and established a place of residence and found our work environment, we tend to become lulled into a calm belief that those places are our refuge, wherein we may remain without concern for our safety. It is a rare individual that performs a thorough assessment of the home or office with an eye to identify vulnerabilities on a routine and recurring basis. The problem with that is with a turbulent and economically depressed period such as we are experiencing now, our paradigms about criminal behaviour need to shift.
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.
But without advance knowledge that a specific place has been targeted, a determined effort to break into a home or office is very difficult to prevent, not to mention both expensive and dangerous. Confronting a criminal is a very bad idea with a high risk of injury. Authorities will always suggest giving the criminal what they want to prevent fatalities or injuries. The best approach is to invest in security surveillance to increase the probability of recovering the possessions.
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