The first step in protecting your assets is to conduct a risk assessment of your location. It is important to remember that security is a dynamic discipline, therefore requiring periodic reviews to enable adjustments to the ambient and dynamic threat environment. Less populated areas experience more competitiveness due to the lack of requirements for protection.
Each industry must establish and define its reasonable standard of care obligations, given the ambient threat environment. Refer to the following figures representing the crime index by Country, and criminality score by country.
Security professionals often apply these tools, to quantify the level and probability of various categories of threats coming into fruition. Thus, the efficacy and the design of your security program require an understanding of and realities of the ambient threat environment. This uniqueness is driven by cultural diversity, sociological diversity, and a unique crime pattern diversity. In other words, the threat matrix for every hospital, every shopping mall, and every residential area are unique. These preconditions must be reflected within the design and structure of each security strategy. The first step is to determine the security history of your facility. This entails gaining an understanding of where the security program has been, where it is now, and where it needs to go moving forward.
Our professionals employ the four main principles of CPTED – natural surveillance, access control, territorial reinforcement, and space management to design systems that contribute to perceptions of increased public safety.