Security Barriers

There are three lines of defence

1) Perimeter security:

• What are the fences made of?
  
• Do they keep people out?
  
• Landscaping, shrubbery, and lighting are other forms of security.

2) Building exteriors:

• What is the building made of?
  
• How secure are external doors and windows?
  
• What are they made of?

3) Interior controls:

• Where are the safes located?
  
• Key control, exit points, physical and electronic security.

Risk

Reduce risks where possible by removing potential targets (e.g., remove all cash) and take preventive measures. These risks include information, goTods money or personnel.

Reduce your potential for theft by better lighting, physical or electronic security or better perimeter security (e.g. fencing). Make use of banks, or a cash-transit company to remove valuables. Reduce the avenues that a thief has to make you a victim.

Have staff members trained to be security wise and to use security systems. This includes lighting, access control, alarms and close-circuit television systems.

Safes

A safe will deter, delay and deny access to valuable property and / or information.

When choosing the type of safe it is important to 'balance the level of protection with the level of risk'.

Buy only a quality safe, but make sure you select the one that best suits your purposes. When installing a safe consider:

• Models with lockable 'post-feed' device, which does not allow cash to be removed once posted through the slot on top of the safe.

• Anchoring your safe to the floor.

• Limiting the number and control of keys and / or combinations.

• Where keys should be kept, and who has access to keys.

• Torch and drill resistant (TDR) safe.

• Time delay locks.

• Warning signs stating that safe cannot be opened by staff; and

• A dye bomb which will mark the contents inside.