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security Lighten your darkness
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by Inspector K. W. Norman,
Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard.
• Exterior floodlighting of parking and storage areas, and buildings sited within a base perimeter, provides a fairly inexpensive and effective deterrent to the would-be thief or vandal.
Each lamp should be capable of illuminating a large area and should be sited as high as possible, partly to increase coverage and at the same time, to protect it from interference. Precautions should be taken to protect the electric supply cable to each lamp and to place the light switches within a protected area.
In the event of exterior lighting forming part of security defences, it is essential that the system should always be switched on during the hours of darkness. This will ensure that in the event of the lighting being tampered with prior to an attack on the premises by thieves, local residents and police will be alert to the probabilities rather than assume a lapse of memory on the part of an employee of the company.
Responsibility for the operation of exterior lighting should be placed in the hands of one particular employee and not left to the person who manages to remember to switch on at the appropriate time.
While making arrangements for the matter mentioned in the previous paragraph, perhaps consideration could be given to the appointment of one of the employees to be specifically responsible for all security matters in addition to his normal duties. Besides exterior lighting, such a person could be held responsible for seeing that doors, windows and filing cabinets are left secure at the termination of the working day. Electric fires, cigarette ash trays, waste paper baskets, machinery, air and fuel lines and other sources of potential danger and consequent loss could also be included in a daily security check. The few minutes needed each day to undertake this task would not be greatly increased if attention were given during the normal course of the working day to such matters as the condition of the perimeter fence, the position of goods stored in the open and other security weaknesses which might arise from time to time.