Saving money and increasing security by using guard tracking device
New Jersey-based company offers GPS-enables guard tracking device which can tell, and keep record of, where guards are at any moment in time; such tracking increases companies’ security and may also reduce their insurance premiums and their legal exposure
In a period of economic downturn, it is especially incumbent on companies to look for ways to cut costs. One way to do it is by employing new technologies to track guards. This would eliminate the potential liabilities for the insured and their guard companies and cutting insurance costs.
Cranston, New Jersey-based GuardTrax tells of an incident involving a break-in at a large Catholic school in California. The guard had to prove that he was not only doing his designated rounds, but why he was not in the precise location at the time of the incident. Fortunately for him (and his employer), he was carrying a GuardTrax unit, a real-time GPS wireless guard management device, which reports the exact location of officers in real-time. The GuardTrax allows managers to review a record of the guard’s location at any time. In the California case, the information was used to determine that the officer was correctly covering his shift, but was on the other side of the building, where he should have been.
Security firms, personnel, and guard companies get fired or blamed for security breaches because they can not always prove that officers were where they were supposed to be. The result is often higher insurance costs for the customer and for the guard company.
The company says that by using new guard management technologies such as GuardTrax, companies can increase their security and also reduce their insurance premiums and their legal exposure by being able to track the real-time whereabouts of their security personnel who carry a Guardtrax device.
