CJS 250 Week 3 Security Objective Components
Security Objective Components
Troy Smith
CJS/250
June 2, 2013
Tom Jones
If you were to close your eyes and imagine a perfect world were crime was not a problem then that world would exist without any forms of security. Unfortunately we do live in a world where crime does exist and there is a need for different forms of security components or measures to combat those criminal acts or other forms of threats. The article from the text described various instances were violent acts caused people to not feel safe and posed the idea of where can people go if they wanted to feel safe. The overall answer was that people felt that church is the place that everyone could go in order to feel safe because churches are considered a symbol of high moral standards but that is not the case anymore. Churches have since become places where many horrible outcomes have taken place such as shootings, bombings, arson and murders. A police chief said that the safest place in the world he always thought was a church and now that sanctuary has been broken (Clifford, 2004). The component of the overall security objective that deserves the most attention in the environments mentioned in the article is physical security. The reason why physical security would work for the environments described in the article is that under physical security components include security hardware such as alarms, closed captioned television (CCTV), locks and lighting. Having security officers, policy and procedure manuals in place for the entire security program helps to deter or even prevent threats. Locks and alarms can be used to protect the people and the property while CCTV can act as the eyes and two way intercoms can act as the ears of the system. Also under the physical security program, policy and procedure manuals grant the security professionals authority to perform the necessary security functions correctly (Clifford, 2004). The component that would be the less pertinent for this
Troy Smith
CJS/250
June 2, 2013
Tom Jones
If you were to close your eyes and imagine a perfect world were crime was not a problem then that world would exist without any forms of security. Unfortunately we do live in a world where crime does exist and there is a need for different forms of security components or measures to combat those criminal acts or other forms of threats. The article from the text described various instances were violent acts caused people to not feel safe and posed the idea of where can people go if they wanted to feel safe. The overall answer was that people felt that church is the place that everyone could go in order to feel safe because churches are considered a symbol of high moral standards but that is not the case anymore. Churches have since become places where many horrible outcomes have taken place such as shootings, bombings, arson and murders. A police chief said that the safest place in the world he always thought was a church and now that sanctuary has been broken (Clifford, 2004). The component of the overall security objective that deserves the most attention in the environments mentioned in the article is physical security. The reason why physical security would work for the environments described in the article is that under physical security components include security hardware such as alarms, closed captioned television (CCTV), locks and lighting. Having security officers, policy and procedure manuals in place for the entire security program helps to deter or even prevent threats. Locks and alarms can be used to protect the people and the property while CCTV can act as the eyes and two way intercoms can act as the ears of the system. Also under the physical security program, policy and procedure manuals grant the security professionals authority to perform the necessary security functions correctly (Clifford, 2004). The component that would be the less pertinent for this