Running a business comes with risks, and how well a company manages those risks determines if it will be a success or not. One risk which can be controlled to a degree is business security. Without some form of protection, a business is a sitting duck for thieves looking to make easy profits from a businesses neglect.
Here are five more reasons investments should be made in business security to protect your place of operations:
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You Can Have Real-Time Business Security Updates
Security systems of the last couple of decades, while designed to keep criminals out, weren’t very forthcoming about alerting anyone to a crime while it was happening. If the security system failed to keep the thieves at bay, the first anyone knew about it was when they walked through the front door in the morning.
Today’s security systems are a more proactive and technologically advanced than their primitive forebears as they can alert you to a crime taking place right now, giving you time to call the police and catch them in the act.
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You Get Discounts on Insurance
Many insurance firms love to encourage their clients to protect themselves by offering discounts on policies or excesses. After all, saving your business from thieves is good for their bottom line as well.
The discounts can help offset the cost of the security system, and it could even end up paying for itself over the life of the policy.
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Provide a Safer Place of Employment
Employees who work shift or night work can often be at the mercy of the criminal element who work outside of the usual business hours. Not only will a business security system be a deterrent to criminals but it will also help give your employees some peace of mind that they have some protection.
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Gather Evidence
Without a security system in place the thieves not only get away with the goods but without any evidence, there’s also no way to bring them to justice.
Even modest security systems can record the crimes as they are transpiring in full HD, and then upload the incriminating evidence to a web server. Motion and infrared sensors activate the system which then monitors the area and catches all the action on camera.
With night-vision tracking and recording, the thieves can not rely on the cover of darkness to make off with their ill-gotten gains. More advanced systems can also alert the monitoring security agency that there is a crime taking place.
If the criminals do make it out, there is incriminating evidence the police can use to track down and apprehend the perpetrators.
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Alert Security as Soon as A Crime Takes Place
If a business is smart about its security, any system they use will also come with a monitoring service.
Security services will deliver different levels of monitoring services, but most will ensure you have a security system monitoring your premises that also possesses the capability to alert them to any potential crime happening at this very moment.
Once an alarm is tripped, or a motion sensor picks up suspicious activity, the security station is alerted to the nefarious activities. The business owner and the proper authorities are then informed by phone. Criminals who think they have all the time in the world may just find themselves walking out into the welcoming arms of the police.
If your business doesn’t yet have the level of security it needs, Naskam can help. Hope online and visit our contact page. We promise to let you know how affordable your security system can be within 24 hours.
