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Article: Proprietary Officers, CCTV/Video Most Effective Risk Reducers.
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- Security
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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While proprietary officers' contributions to risk management efforts remain undisputed, technology's ability to reduce risk has shifted in the last five years, with CCTV/remote video ascending to the top tech spot.
A 1996 J.P. Freeman Co., Inc., report, "The Effectiveness of Security Systems and Services in the Management of Risk," measured the opinions of security professionals working in a variety of industry and government settings. In 1996, executives evenly ranked the ability of access control and intrusion systems to reduce risk second behind proprietary officers. (While not listed on this article's chart, fire systems are generally accepted as the single ...