Barriers Flashcards
What are the 2 major types of protective barriers?
1) Structural
2) Natural
What are the 3 basic purposes of barriers?
1) Deter / delay
2) Psychological deterrent
3) Supplement/complement security personnel needs
What should positive barriers be established for?
1)
2)
3)
1) Controlling car/foot traffic flow
2) Checking ID of personnel entering/leaving
3) Defining a buffer zone for more highly classified areas
When the greatest degree of security is essential, what should be installed on the perimeter?
Two lines of structural barriers
Two lines of structural barriers should be separated by not less than ________ feet and no more than __________ feet for best protection and control.
15 feet
150 feet
Four types of fencing authorized for use in protecting restricted areas are?
1) Chain link
2) Barbed wire
3) Concertina
4) Barbed tape
Chain link fences must be how high, excluding top guard?
7 feet
Chain link fences must be what gauge or heavier?
9 gauge
Chain link fences must have what size mesh openings?
2 inches per side or smaller
Chain link fences should have what at the top and bottom?
Twisted and barbed salvage
How must chain link fences be fastened?
To rigid metal or reinforced concrete posts set in concrete
On hard ground or paving, chain link fences must come how close to the ground?
Within 2 inches
On soft ground, chain link fences must reach below the surface deep enough to what?
Compensate for shifting soil or sand
Standard barbed wire is what kind of strand and what gauge?
Twisted, double strand, 12 gauge
How many points on barbs on barbed wire fences?
4
Barbs on barbed wire fences should be spaced how?
Equally apart
Barbed wire fencing should be at least how high, excluding top guard?
7 feet
Barbed wire fencing must be firmly affixed to posts not more than how many feet apart?
6
On barbed wire fencing, the distance between strands will not exceed how many inches?
6
On barbed wire fencing, one wire will be interlaced how?
Vertically and midway between posts
Commercially manufactured wire coil of high-strength steel barbed wire clipped together at intervals to form a cylinder is called:
concertina barbed wire
Opened concertina wire is ____ feet long and ____ feet in diamater
50, 3
The barbed tape system is composed of 3 things:
1) Barbed wire
2) Barbed tape dispenser
3) Concertina tape
Barbed tape is fabricated from a steel strip with a minimum breaking system of how many pounds?
500
The overall width of barbed tape is what?
3/4 of an inch
Barbed tape has _______ barbs spaced at ______ intervals along each side
7/16 inch barbs
1/2 inch intervals
A top guard is an overhang made of what?
Barbed wire or barbed tape
A top guard faces in what direction?
outward and upward