Use Security Cameras to safeguard your office

I have five security cameras in my office

I have five security cameras in my office. I can sit in my room at a hotel in another part of the country and I can watch my staff. I can also listen to my office staff.

They're there to work and it's my office. I can put up a camera and a microphone if I want to. But I didn't get the camera to watch my staff and their every move. I got the camera for security reasons.

I have a drop box outside my office for rent payments and such. Can you not imagine someone trying to rip it off the wall and walk off with the money?

My office is in a strip mall and kids drive by on their bikes. Don't you think they could end up hitting the front window of my store?

If an irate tenant comes in with emotions boiling over, ready to do something violent, I have them on camera. Also, there are likely a lot of people who think that there is a lot of money in my office. I have it on camera if they try to rob us.

It may have sounded like I had the camera to watch over my employees and shut down any chance they may have at being mischievous. But the real reason I got the cameras was to protect my employees. I would hate the thought of them being injured in any way during a robbery or an attack from an irate tenant. I care too much about their safety.

Anyone could be knocking on the door; I have cameras in the hall outside my office.

We're in a nice, safe part of town and you hope that these things never happen. But they do. One of the businesses in our strip mall was robbed recently. So why not protect yourself?

The key for me was to get a camera facing the front door. This way, if a tenant or someone else comes in, I can see them and the drop box.

I had some kids come by and they brought me some trouble. They ripped the lockbox off the wall. They whacked it with their bikes. But they couldn't get into it and ended up putting it in the garbage can. And, yes, it still had my checks in there.

What I did was print their picture out and put it on my window. I said I had a reward for these people. We had some people come in and claim to know the kids but we never caught them. I never lost anything major. I had to get another mailbox because the kids beat the other one up pretty good.

So the moral to my story here is this, if you have an office, protect it with a security camera or a few cameras. It's not a lot of money; you have to pay some up front. But basically, you buy a computer to run the cameras. Usually you pay monthly. A much greater expense is a robbery that costs you the money they walk off with or worse, an attack that injures or kills you or one of your employees.

Use Security Cameras to safeguard your office

By: Alan Cowgill

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