An introduction to Forecourt security
 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.
What's the solution?
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