Maryland Business Crime Prevention

Crime, burglary, robbery, and vandalism can be particularly devastating to a businesses in terms of money, customers, and employee safety. Through crime prevention, business owners can protect their assets as well as their employees.

Laying a Foundation for Prevention

Business owners should take a hard look at their businesses in areas such as physical layout, number of employees, hiring practices, and overall security to determine vulnerability to various kinds of crime, from burglary to embezzlement. Once this step has been taken, crime prevention measures can then be implemented.

• Provide training for all employees including cleaning staff so they are familiar with security procedures and know expectations.
• Provide training for all employees on security procedures and performance expectations.
• Use good locks, safes, and alarm systems.
• Keep detailed, up-to-date records and store back-up copies off premises to provide useful information for law enforcement investigations quickly.
• Establish and enforce clear policies about employee theft, employee substance abuse, crime reporting, opening and closing the business, and other security proce¬dures.
• Consider the cost of each security improvements made against the potential savings through loss reduction.

Since crimes against businesses are usually crimes of opportunity, failure to take good security precautions invites crime into a business.

How to purchase a Security System

Flexible terms and payment options are available to your customers so they can get the equipment they need. A one-page application and speedy process make it simple for you to apply. Call ACS SECURITY SYSTEM of MARYLAND to take advantage of our financing options. It doesn’t matter if you need Digital CCTV System, IP Cameras, Access Control System, Alarm System, Monitoring and Intercom/Pagining all at once because we can help you in more ways than one.

Standard Lease Plans

Fair Market Value – This plan offers the most options both during and at the end of the lease term for those worried about obsolescence or wanting a small security deposit and a relatively low monthly payment. At the end of the lease term, you have three options: extend the term of the lease, return the equipment, or buy it at its fair market value. Marlin also offers financing for those wishing to buy the equipment at the end of the lease term. A True Lease allows the most cost to be deferred to the end of the lease when a decision to retain or upgrade the equipment can be made.

10% Security Deposit – Because this program offers the lowest monthly payment, it is especially attractive to those who can afford to pay a 10% security deposit of the lease amount at the beginning of the lease. End-of-lease options still apply. Use the deposit to extend the lease or return the equipment and request the refunded deposit.

10% Purchase Option – This plan offers the customer a fixed purchase option at the end of the lease term. Upon final payment, the customer can continue to lease the equipment, return the equipment, or buy it at 10% of the original equipment cost.

$1.00 Buy Out – For those who are fairly certain they wish to purchase the equipment at the end of the lease term, this is the recommended plan. Once the lease term expires, the equipment is simply purchased for $1.00.

10 ways to protect your company’s bottom line.

Most businesses have some type of security from a simple lock and key to a basic alarm system but has your business been exposed to Internal Theft, Fraud, Workers Compensation Claims, Production Losses, Burglary, Vandalism, Time Theft, Work Place Violence or any other threat to your bottom line. Security technology provides a wide range of benefits and applications especially to the corporate bottom line. A well-planned security application for a business can provide a significant return on investment and should not be seen as an expense or drain. Here’s a list of just a few benefit’s a security system can provide. Be sure to contact ACS Security Systems to set up you free no obligation Security Evaluation or email us for free Business Continuity Guideline
What can a well planned security system do for your bottom line?

1. Protect against internal and external theft.
2. Offer avenues to reach and reduce employee time theft as well as business shrinkage
3. Lower insurance premiums by minimize risk and loss due to accidents.
4. Automated tools for tracking people, places and materials.
5. Receive data and images for measuring business activities such as production and materials.
6. Identify and control access to the facility.
7. Real time and remote status of business operations as they occur.
8. Integrate of physical access control and logical database access.
9. Activity log of events to provide actual information as it occurred.
10. Security can provide a greater feeling of comfort for customers.

Tips on security systems

If you want to be certain you have a good security system, you should not only base this on the brand, but on the way it is installed as well. You should be sure you do all you can to install your security system to the best of your ability and you should try make sure you install it correctly.

By taking the time to learn how to install a security system correctly, it can save you even more time and money in the future. The way to get the most out of your security system is know what you are doing when it comes to installing it correctly.

Listed below are some ways to help you install your security system so it meets the all the requirements it should and will best suit your needs when it comes to it actually working in the event you need it to.

Mount it in the correct location

The key to getting your security system to do what you want it to do is to be sure that you mount the system in the right place. This includes avoiding placing the receiver or the receiver aerial near to electrical equipment such as televisions or computer equipment as these can generate background noise. You also want to try to avoid placing it too close to a boiler system or something that is very hot.

Make sure it’s in the correct orientation

You want to be certain you aren’t tempted to cut or alter the length of the aerial cable until you have checked the signal strength. Aerials are designed to a tuned frequency and tampering with the size of the aerial will affect the frequency and performance of the system. You want to take a look at the direction the cable is running and keep it running that way.

Consider the wall thickness in your property

It is very important that before you install your device, you should make an assessment of the thickness of your property’s walls. Sometimes in properties with very thick walls, you can struggle to get the right amount of signal strength. If the receiver or the receiver aerial can be mounted high up in an attic space for example so the signal path is through the floor boards this can make strength it.

Carry out a signal strength test in various locations

You will want to be certain before you mount your wireless security system to do a spot check of the signal strength and the background noise in your planned locations. If you find that a signal strength measurement is not available do a few tests to ensure that the alarm signals are received at the control panel.

This is a very important step because you want to be sure your security system signal is strong enough.

You want to be certain you have a security system to protect you from any type of theft as this can really be a great way to help protect you against someone breaking in your house.