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What is surveillance technology?
by Julianna Munro
http://www.firstsurveillance.com
The technology of surveillance equipment is continuing to
advance at a very rapid pace. As a result surveillance
equipment has become almost ubiquitous in retail stores,
public schools, gas stations, and airport terminals all
across the United States. There is a wide range of
surveillance technology that is available on the market.
Surveillance equipment ranges from wiretapping phone and
internet based equipment to high tech facial feature
recognition computer software known as biometrics.
If a criminal thinks he may be on camera then he is
unlikely to commit a crime at that facility, which in turn
is helping to protect us from robberies and other crimes
that could be happening. As the surveillance technology is
becoming more available to the public, more businesses and
homes can be protected by this ever-growing technology.
The whole reason for installing a piece of surveillance
equipment is to discourage criminals from stealing
merchandise or robbing a place of business of the money it
has made. Crooks are most likely to think twice when they
know they can possibly be identified, captured and charged
with the crime at a later date. Even though not everything
that goes on can be seen by a surveillance camera, the
activity that it does pick up can provide a huge amount of
help for the police and security personal in the identity
of a criminal when a offense has been committed.
Surveillance equipment still works in the original way it
was intended since it was first introduced to us i.e it is
still used to try and prevent crimes. A lot of small
businesses that can~t afford to install a real security
system uses dummy cameras to try and discourage a thief
from committing a crime on there premises. Although they
don~t record anything, no one really knows for sure if
these cameras are real or not therefore, they do help some
in the prevention of a crime.
Big companies that own store and warehouses usually install
cameras to prevent the theft of their merchandise. Most of
the time someone from outside of the company will enter and
steal merchandise, but in these instances the surveillance
cameras will record this action, and evidence can be given
to the police to have these people arrested and charged
with their crime. Once in a while a company has an employee
that feels the need to take merchandise; in this case the
company will follow their procedures for this occurrence,
which normally includes termination of the employee.
Shopping malls, parking garages, office buildings,
financial intuitions, almost every where we go we will find
surveillance equipment lurking around. This is so
businesses can protect their merchandise from being stolen
or at the very least catch and prosecute someone who does
commit a crime. It doesn~t matter to the camera if you are
an employee of the company or not, if you do the crime you
will be recorded. By slowing down the crime rate and
prosecuting ones who do commit crimes, companies can
protect their merchandise from missing, which can help keep
prices lower for consumers.
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