Security measures schools should consider to minimise anti-social behaviour
Whilst national news headlines report of rising crime figures in Schools across the UK, we take a look at proven methods of tackling anti-social behaviour within education.
Schools and colleges are often tackled with very unique security challenges. With both students and staff requiring different forms of safety precautions, security measures can often become complex and difficult to implement. By working with a professional security company with industry accreditations, your security systems can be designed from the ground-up with usability and scalability in mind.
Schools often find that local community behaviour spills over into their school grounds, creating a culture for anti-social behaviour within their corridors and classrooms. Intimidating behaviour, property damage and vandalism all pose a significant threat to the safe environment schools are pressing to achieve.
Security systems to help reinforce a safe environment within schools
Below we take a look at two key security measures proven to tackle or reduce anti-social behaviour in schools, each have their own advantages and can be used to deter, detect or record evidence of events with incredible accuracy.
A very useful method of combatting multiple concerns within schools. Loud speaker units can be tailored to play pre-recorded messages to deter loitering, address students and warn intruders or trespassers outside of school hours.
A proven and cost effective method of deterring crime and vandalism. With the advances in video analytics, cameras can now be used to target specific incidents and detect movements, alerting personnel where necessary.
Speech Announcement & Lock Down Systems
Within the security industry, prevention is always better than cure. Speech Announcement or 'Lock Down' systems are a great example of tackling the problem at the source.
What are Speech Announcement Systems?
Speech Announcement Systems start with a loudspeaker unit that will playback any pre-recorded message to deter, welcome, warn or inform. The systems themselves are highly flexible for many uses and can quickly form part of a school's safety procedure.
How can they help?
Statistically most anti-social behaviour occurs during unsupervised or unstructured time. To tackle this, Speech Announcement Systems can deter loitering with pre-recorded notices or 'annoying sounds' specifically designed to move people on. Outside of school hours, PIR detectors can detect movement and warn or deter intruders with messages, or sounds such as sirens - indistinguishable from the real thing.
CCTV cameras that don't break the bank
Traditional CCTV cameras were designed to record evidence in the event of a crime or disturbance. However the technology has moved on leaps and bounds, delving deeper into analysing data and detecting movements even before an incident occurs.
CCTV cameras are now a cost effective option for schools, with great benefits from new-age features such as networked IP and video analytics.
What is CCTV Video Analytics and how can it help to deter anti-social behaviour?
Video analytics is software built into the camera itself, able to analyse an environment and detect trends, movement, human profiles or even facial details. With this information, tasks can be performed to analyse an environment and alert on-site personnel to an incident in real time. How the cameras work is entirely down to your requirements, the possibilities are wide and varied.
Alongside it's ability to pick out subjects from a crowd, or alert personnel to trespassers or incidents, CCTV cameras are a proven deterrent. Many anti-social incidents could be avoided by simply a presence of 'being watched' - whilst this may not solve the problem itself, it can be used in hotspots with instant impact.
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