They call
it 'a crime epidemic', and it’s aimed at you. Vandalism and theft from
motor businesses is costing thousands of pounds in damaged stock, lost
revenue and increased insurance premiums.
The whole
industry is being forced to re-evaluate its security measures.
Traditional
security has centred around security officers, alarms and CCTV. But
experience has highlighted the limitations of these. Employing security
officers is expensive. Alarms cannot be used on forecourts, because
genuine prospects, innocently inspecting a car, would trigger them. Also,
CCTV must be monitored in real time if it is to be of any use.
We
don’t want to scare off our prospects.
We
don’t want the police called out by false alarms.
We
don’t want ourselves or our personnel dragged out of bed in the
middle of the night without good cause.
We
don’t want to sit through hours of video footage, after the crime
has taken place.
There
is no point in CCTV if no one is watching.
There
is no point in them watching if they do not act.
To
pay for someone to watch your CCTV full-time would incur a huge
overhead.
