The Security Plan

The Security Plan Axia College University of Phoenix

Planning ahead in anything is always a good idea. It keeps things on track and makes things run more smoothly. It can sometimes guarantee that things will go as planned. That is not always the case when it comes to security. At any moment anything can go wrong in the blink of an eye. That is why security professionals have to always be ready for anything at any time.
The floor plan of my targeted environment is a bank. It is a pretty basic setup. There are two security cameras and a security guard on duty. I think that the placement of the cameras is a good benefit to the security plan. They are facing the front door so they record everybody that comes through those doors. Knowing that a security guard is on duty should be enough of a deterrent, but for people who have intentions of robbing a bank, I guess that just does not matter. The tellers can also play a role if a robbery or something did take place. They have buttons by their money drawers that they can press to alert the police if need be. In a matter of minutes the police should arrive and have everything under control hopefully. I think that all banks that are being built now are being done so with security as the number one objective. Keeping the people and their money safe is a good formula to follow.
There are a number of threats that come into play where a bank is concerned. The first and probably the most common is robbery. Bank robberies take place all the time all over the country. Lately almost every time I tune into the local news there has been a bank robbery somewhere and the police are always looking for the suspect. I guess the economy is the reason why people are robbing banks so much. Another threat would be a hostage situation. Right now things are so crazy that you just do not know what to expect from people. Someone could come in and just take over the place and it does not always have to be about the money. It could be a number of things that make people do stupid things. Or maybe it could be a situation where it began as a robbery but quickly turns into a hostage situation. Maybe the police got there quicker than they thought they would. The last threat would be a bombing. The robbers may try to bomb the money vault open. That could lead to something totally different from what it started out as. Now you have the possibility of having people hurt; not just the people who work there but the people who where to do business also. Even people who may have been just walking or riding may even be hurt in this. When situations like that happen, no one can say what the outcome may be because we just never know.
Having risk assessments for each possible threat is the best way to prepare for the unknown. Having a strategy to follow for things like this is a good idea. For the threat of a robbery I always think that having something visually like a security guard to deter the criminal is the best way to go about it. Most likely if a person knows that a particular bank always has a least one security guard on hand at all times, and then they are not likely to rob that one. In other words they will think twice about it. I also think that there should be signs up that say wearing hats and sunglasses inside are prohibited. That way if somebody does come in with that on after they read the sign, the staff will automatically know that something may be wrong. Security cameras are also a good way to help aid in the problem. If a robbery does take place having security cameras that work is a good way to give a description to the public. Now people can get a good look at the suspect and be able identify him or her if they are seen out. There is not much that can done for the threat of taking hostages but a security guard would help in making the criminal think twice about it. For the last threat of bombing, I think that having bomb sniffing dogs walk the premises every now and then would actually be a good idea. Again going back to the visual part of it is the key. If somebody sees a security outside walking a dog people are going to know that it could only be one of two things and those are drugs or bombs. Either way just knowing that the security guard at any particular bank does that is also a good deterrence for "the would be" criminals.
There are always vulnerability gaps in everything that we do. The biggest one that I see with my floor plan is not having cameras the doorways outside. If someone is planning to rob the bank, they could walk up to the bank or get out of their car dressed normally but then once they get to the doorway they could quickly put on a mask or put on a jacket or something. Now they already look different than they did when they first got there. If there is a camera pointed in the direction of the parking lot the police can now get a good view of the person walking up to the entry way. If they drove you can now see what kind of vehicle the suspect may be driving. If they just walked up to the bank you can see what direction they came from and now the police can try and find footprints or even items that the robber may have dropped. Any good information in a robbery always helps find the person sooner and the sooner, the better.
The overall security objective is always at the forefront of any security plan. Physical, information, and personnel security plays a huge role in that. Liability issues and departmental dependencies also have a hand in the process as well. I think that having at least one more security professional on the staff would help keep the robberies down. Just knowing that there are at least two on duty would make any person in their right mind think twice. Information security is also important in helping to keep crime down. The people that are hired to work at banks go through a number a background checks. You would not want somebody that has a criminal past like bank robbery work for you because that person now has access to safes and their combinations and that can be very tempting for the individual. Liability and departmental issues also come into play where the overall security objective is concerned.
Emergency and disaster plans should always be high up on the list when it comes to banks. If there is a bomb threat the manager or whoever is in charge should immediately take over the situation. They should notify all of the employees and have them lock up their money drawers (if time permits) and exit the building quickly. If there is a fire, depending on the severity of it, the employees may have time to get their belongings after that they should exit the building immediately. These two threats is something that is out of the hands of the security professionals because there is no way that they can be controlled.
Having a good security plan is the key to keeping crime down. There is no way to stop it completely but taking simple steps to keep you and your employees safe is the best way to go about it. A plan always has to be present in anything that we do. People may not realize it but everyday that we wake up and go about our daily routine, it is planned. I think we just get so used to doing the same things everyday that we forget that it is a plan. Security professionals help keep us safe everywhere. Things used to not be so bad so we did not see them all over. Nowadays you can’t go anywhere and not see at least one. They are the real hero’s. REFERENCES:
Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials, 2004 www.mit.edu www.policechiefmagzine.org The Security Plan Axia College University of Phoenix

Planning ahead in anything is always a good idea. It keeps things on track and makes things run more smoothly. It can sometimes guarantee that things will go as planned. That is not always the case when it comes to security. At any moment anything can go wrong in the blink of an eye. That is why security professionals have to always be ready for anything at any time.
The floor plan of my targeted environment is a bank. It is a pretty basic setup. There are two security cameras and a security guard on duty. I think that the placement of the cameras is a good benefit to the security plan. They are facing the front door so they record everybody that comes through those doors. Knowing that a security guard is on duty should be enough of a deterrent, but for people who have intentions of robbing a bank, I guess that just does not matter. The tellers can also play a role if a robbery or something did take place. They have buttons by their money drawers that they can press to alert the police if need be. In a matter of minutes the police should arrive and have everything under control hopefully. I think that all banks that are being built now are being done so with security as the number one objective. Keeping the people and their money safe is a good formula to follow.
There are a number of threats that come into play where a bank is concerned. The first and probably the most common is robbery. Bank robberies take place all the time all over the country. Lately almost every time I tune into the local news there has been a bank robbery somewhere and the police are always looking for the suspect. I guess the economy is the reason why people are robbing banks so much. Another threat would be a hostage situation. Right now things are so crazy that you just do not know what to expect from people. Someone could come in and just take over the place and it does not always have to be about the money. It could be a number of things that make people do stupid things. Or maybe it could be a situation where it began as a robbery but quickly turns into a hostage situation. Maybe the police got there quicker than they thought they would. The last threat would be a bombing. The robbers may try to bomb the money vault open. That could lead to something totally different from what it started out as. Now you have the possibility of having people hurt; not just the people who work there but the people who where to do business also. Even people who may have been just walking or riding may even be hurt in this. When situations like that happen, no one can say what the outcome may be because we just never know.
Having risk assessments for each possible threat is the best way to prepare for the unknown. Having a strategy to follow for things like this is a good idea. For the threat of a robbery I always think that having something visually like a security guard to deter the criminal is the best way to go about it. Most likely if a person knows that a particular bank always has a least one security guard on hand at all times, and then they are not likely to rob that one. In other words they will think twice about it. I also think that there should be signs up that say wearing hats and sunglasses inside are prohibited. That way if somebody does come in with that on after they read the sign, the staff will automatically know that something may be wrong. Security cameras are also a good way to help aid in the problem. If a robbery does take place having security cameras that work is a good way to give a description to the public. Now people can get a good look at the suspect and be able identify him or her if they are seen out. There is not much that can done for the threat of taking hostages but a security guard would help in making the criminal think twice about it. For the last threat of bombing, I think that having bomb sniffing dogs walk the premises every now and then would actually be a good idea. Again going back to the visual part of it is the key. If somebody sees a security outside walking a dog people are going to know that it could only be one of two things and those are drugs or bombs. Either way just knowing that the security guard at any particular bank does that is also a good deterrence for "the would be" criminals.
There are always vulnerability gaps in everything that we do. The biggest one that I see with my floor plan is not having cameras the doorways outside. If someone is planning to rob the bank, they could walk up to the bank or get out of their car dressed normally but then once they get to the doorway they could quickly put on a mask or put on a jacket or something. Now they already look different than they did when they first got there. If there is a camera pointed in the direction of the parking lot the police can now get a good view of the person walking up to the entry way. If they drove you can now see what kind of vehicle the suspect may be driving. If they just walked up to the bank you can see what direction they came from and now the police can try and find footprints or even items that the robber may have dropped. Any good information in a robbery always helps find the person sooner and the sooner, the better.
The overall security objective is always at the forefront of any security plan. Physical, information, and personnel security plays a huge role in that. Liability issues and departmental dependencies also have a hand in the process as well. I think that having at least one more security professional on the staff would help keep the robberies down. Just knowing that there are at least two on duty would make any person in their right mind think twice. Information security is also important in helping to keep crime down. The people that are hired to work at banks go through a number a background checks. You would not want somebody that has a criminal past like bank robbery work for you because that person now has access to safes and their combinations and that can be very tempting for the individual. Liability and departmental issues also come into play where the overall security objective is concerned.
Emergency and disaster plans should always be high up on the list when it comes to banks. If there is a bomb threat the manager or whoever is in charge should immediately take over the situation. They should notify all of the employees and have them lock up their money drawers (if time permits) and exit the building quickly. If there is a fire, depending on the severity of it, the employees may have time to get their belongings after that they should exit the building immediately. These two threats is something that is out of the hands of the security professionals because there is no way that they can be controlled.
Having a good security plan is the key to keeping crime down. There is no way to stop it completely but taking simple steps to keep you and your employees safe is the best way to go about it. A plan always has to be present in anything that we do. People may not realize it but everyday that we wake up and go about our daily routine, it is planned. I think we just get so used to doing the same things everyday that we forget that it is a plan. Security professionals help keep us safe everywhere. Things used to not be so bad so we did not see them all over. Nowadays you can’t go anywhere and not see at least one. They are the real hero’s. REFERENCES:
Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials, 2004 www.mit.edu www.policechiefmagzine.org The Security Plan Axia College University of Phoenix

Planning ahead in anything is always a good idea. It keeps things on track and makes things run more smoothly. It can sometimes guarantee that things will go as planned. That is not always the case when it comes to security. At any moment anything can go wrong in the blink of an eye. That is why security professionals have to always be ready for anything at any time.
The floor plan of my targeted environment is a bank. It is a pretty basic setup. There are two security cameras and a security guard on duty. I think that the placement of the cameras is a good benefit to the security plan. They are facing the front door so they record everybody that comes through those doors. Knowing that a security guard is on duty should be enough of a deterrent, but for people who have intentions of robbing a bank, I guess that just does not matter. The tellers can also play a role if a robbery or something did take place. They have buttons by their money drawers that they can press to alert the police if need be. In a matter of minutes the police should arrive and have everything under control hopefully. I think that all banks that are being built now are being done so with security as the number one objective. Keeping the people and their money safe is a good formula to follow.
There are a number of threats that come into play where a bank is concerned. The first and probably the most common is robbery. Bank robberies take place all the time all over the country. Lately almost every time I tune into the local news there has been a bank robbery somewhere and the police are always looking for the suspect. I guess the economy is the reason why people are robbing banks so much. Another threat would be a hostage situation. Right now things are so crazy that you just do not know what to expect from people. Someone could come in and just take over the place and it does not always have to be about the money. It could be a number of things that make people do stupid things. Or maybe it could be a situation where it began as a robbery but quickly turns into a hostage situation. Maybe the police got there quicker than they thought they would. The last threat would be a bombing. The robbers may try to bomb the money vault open. That could lead to something totally different from what it started out as. Now you have the possibility of having people hurt; not just the people who work there but the people who where to do business also. Even people who may have been just walking or riding may even be hurt in this. When situations like that happen, no one can say what the outcome may be because we just never know.
Having risk assessments for each possible threat is the best way to prepare for the unknown. Having a strategy to follow for things like this is a good idea. For the threat of a robbery I always think that having something visually like a security guard to deter the criminal is the best way to go about it. Most likely if a person knows that a particular bank always has a least one security guard on hand at all times, and then they are not likely to rob that one. In other words they will think twice about it. I also think that there should be signs up that say wearing hats and sunglasses inside are prohibited. That way if somebody does come in with that on after they read the sign, the staff will automatically know that something may be wrong. Security cameras are also a good way to help aid in the problem. If a robbery does take place having security cameras that work is a good way to give a description to the public. Now people can get a good look at the suspect and be able identify him or her if they are seen out. There is not much that can done for the threat of taking hostages but a security guard would help in making the criminal think twice about it. For the last threat of bombing, I think that having bomb sniffing dogs walk the premises every now and then would actually be a good idea. Again going back to the visual part of it is the key. If somebody sees a security outside walking a dog people are going to know that it could only be one of two things and those are drugs or bombs. Either way just knowing that the security guard at any particular bank does that is also a good deterrence for "the would be" criminals.
There are always vulnerability gaps in everything that we do. The biggest one that I see with my floor plan is not having cameras the doorways outside. If someone is planning to rob the bank, they could walk up to the bank or get out of their car dressed normally but then once they get to the doorway they could quickly put on a mask or put on a jacket or something. Now they already look different than they did when they first got there. If there is a camera pointed in the direction of the parking lot the police can now get a good view of the person walking up to the entry way. If they drove you can now see what kind of vehicle the suspect may be driving. If they just walked up to the bank you can see what direction they came from and now the police can try and find footprints or even items that the robber may have dropped. Any good information in a robbery always helps find the person sooner and the sooner, the better.
The overall security objective is always at the forefront of any security plan. Physical, information, and personnel security plays a huge role in that. Liability issues and departmental dependencies also have a hand in the process as well. I think that having at least one more security professional on the staff would help keep the robberies down. Just knowing that there are at least two on duty would make any person in their right mind think twice. Information security is also important in helping to keep crime down. The people that are hired to work at banks go through a number a background checks. You would not want somebody that has a criminal past like bank robbery work for you because that person now has access to safes and their combinations and that can be very tempting for the individual. Liability and departmental issues also come into play where the overall security objective is concerned.
Emergency and disaster plans should always be high up on the list when it comes to banks. If there is a bomb threat the manager or whoever is in charge should immediately take over the situation. They should notify all of the employees and have them lock up their money drawers (if time permits) and exit the building quickly. If there is a fire, depending on the severity of it, the employees may have time to get their belongings after that they should exit the building immediately. These two threats is something that is out of the hands of the security professionals because there is no way that they can be controlled.
Having a good security plan is the key to keeping crime down. There is no way to stop it completely but taking simple steps to keep you and your employees safe is the best way to go about it. A plan always has to be present in anything that we do. People may not realize it but everyday that we wake up and go about our daily routine, it is planned. I think we just get so used to doing the same things everyday that we forget that it is a plan. Security professionals help keep us safe everywhere. Things used to not be so bad so we did not see them all over. Nowadays you can’t go anywhere and not see at least one. They are the real hero’s. REFERENCES:
Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials, 2004 www.mit.edu www.policechiefmagzine.org

References: Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials, 2004 www.mit.edu www.policechiefmagzine.org