Less than 30 per cent of business premises electronically covered
Despite the increasing risk of criminal attacks against business premises “probably less than thirty per cent” of the major business houses in the city have invested in adequate security equipment,” according to General Manager of Starr Computers Rehman Majeed. And according to Majeed the point has long been reached where the private sector ought to take a serious collective look at the role that electronic surveillance can play in reducing risks associated with criminal attacks against businesses.
“Although some of the major businesses are now covered by electronic security the general tendency in the business community is for business owners to become interested in security surveillance during spates of robberies and to return to a condition of indifference once it appears that that particular wave has passed. Majeed said that checks with other electronic security equipment dealers would probably reveal files containing scores of quotations for electronic security equipment requested during and immediately after major robberies. “As soon as they think the moment has passed many of them either forget about those quotations or begin to ask about cheaper surveillance systems,” Majeed said.
