Static Retail Guarding
Static Guarding
Why choose Static Guards?
In today's economic environment where theft and vandalism are becoming more commonplace, security risks to all businesses are increasing along with increasing insurance premiums. These risks include loss and damage to vital assets and could result in serious damage to the business due to loss of business continuity.
Offices, factories, warehouses and building sites are increasingly vulnerable, especially out of hours. Those that are in remote locations and have high value stock, materials or equipment are even more vulnerable.
Many businesses rely solely on alarms and CCTV to protect their premises and dismiss Guards to be too expensive. However the right complementary mixture of manpower, technology and procedures is a worthwhile investment.
Guards have some specific advantages over CCTV and alarms which should not be overlooked:-
- Guards are able to see some areas that CCTV cannot. This is particularly true in a warehouse or factory environment where things are moved around and may sometimes be stored beyond camera range. Also people moving around continuously may hide some suspicious activity that CCTV cannot pick up.
- Guards are able to use judgement. They are able to pick out situations and events that they feel are threatening or suspicious and take immediate action.
- On site Guards are able to react quickly and effectively to intruder alarms and video surveillance alarms. The technology in this instance can only detect a security breach but do nothing about it.
The presence of Guards on a site is more likely to be a deterrent to intruders than CCTV and alarms.
Good trained and motivated Guards are able to provide flexibility and a variety of skills to meet a range of situations including unusual activity. Technology does not have this flexibility nor can it be proactive.
Therefore the use of Guards in addition to CCTV and alarms provides more in depth security and although it costs more, loss prevention, business continuity and reduced insurance premiums may outweigh the costs.
Why use Senturian Security Guards?
All Senturian Security Guards possess Security Industry Authority licenses and are appointed after a vigorous recruitment process and vetting to BS7858 standards.
All Senturian Security Guards are highly motivated and fully trained, and receive site specific training for each client's site.
As far as possible all Guards are dedicated to one site.
We aim to retain and develop staff through a number of measures, including on-going training, to improve motivation and encourage empowerment and personal development.
Guards are supported by a 24 hour control room, where required, lone worker devices, and mobile back up. Regular management visits are made to sites.
Where required we install patrol monitoring devises on the client's premises and periodic patrol print outs presented to the client.
Uniformed and highly visible Guards are able to deter any illegal activity.
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