Securing Home and Business

A guide to the electronic security industry

By
  • Erwin Blackstone, Metrica Business Consulting, USA
  • Simon Hakim, Metrica Business Consulting, USA

Securing Home and Business provides the most practical information available on safekeeping buildings such as homes, malls, office parks, retail manufacturers and restaurants.Taken from interviews with professional burglars, this book describes where intrusions most often occur, how burglars are most likely to enter the premises and the burglar's most common actions taken once on the premises. Additionally, Securing Home and Business contains essential marketing and management strategies needed by security professionals, including how to market security services, how to approach potential customers, the nature of customer relations, device selection and placement.

Audience
alarm dealers, security managers, facility and property managers, researchers

Hardbound, 310 Pages

Published: December 1996

Imprint: Butterworth Heinemann

ISBN: 978-0-7506-9629-6

Contents

  • *The burglars behavior *The choice of target *Effective security precautions *Cost benefit of alarms to the community *The effectiveness of alarm to insurers *The structure of the alarm industry *Marketing alarms *False alarm problem and private response *Legal issues *Success stories

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