Security Management Flashcards
What do special services provided by security include?
- Executive protection and home security surveys
- Investigative services
- Emergency services such as firefighting, emergency medical, and disaster management
What is the primary service provided by security?
Protective service of prevention
Who does the security director report to
The vice president or higher
Insurance rates are dependent upon two primary variables:
- Frequency of claims
2. Cost of each claim
What was the first codification of law in history?
Hammurabi’s code in 1800 BC
Where does modern policing have its roots?
In England, Sir Robert Peel, 1829
What’s the book that presented ideas and applied strategies from the New York housing project that residential security can be brought about through environmental and architectural design and other planning coordinated with crime prevention methods
“Defensible Space” by Oscar Newman
Urban planning and design process which integrates crime prevention with neighborhood design and urban development
Environmental security (E/S)
Four ways E/S maximizes opportunities for criminal apprehension:
- Increased perpetration time
- Increased detection time
- Decreased reporting time
- Decreased police response time
The four concepts of “Defensible Space”
- Territoriality
- Natural surveillance
- Image and milieu
- Safe area
Critical, on-site examination and analysis to ascertain the security status, identify deficiencies or excesses, determine protection needed, and make recommendations for overall security
Security survey
What are the two ways you measure the cost of protection?
- Protection in depth
2. Delay time
What is essential for conducting a security survey?
A well-thought-out checklist
What is the greatest ongoing threat to business?
Internal theft
Stealing in small quantities over a long period.
Pilferage
Taking money/property entrusted to their care
Embezzlement
Loss of inventory through any means
Shrinkage
What are the two major causes of employee theft?
- Personal problems
2. Environment (inadequate socialization)
What are the three elements of the theft triangle?
Motivation + opportunity + rationalization
What are the three readily visible danger signs from someone who might commit a theft?
- Conspicuous consumers
- Pattern of financial irresponsibility
- Being financially squeezed
What are the four D’s of crime prevention?
- Deter
- Detect
- Delay
- Deny
What are the four specific steps that comprise the crime analysis procedure?
- Data collection
- Analysis
3 Dissemination - Feedback
Unsafe acts cause what percentage of all accidents?
85%
Unsafe conditions cause what percentage of all accidents?
15%
Anything from serious injury to a breakdown in quality-control
An incident
And undesired event resulting in physical harm to a person or damage to
An accident
