CV SECURITY

Belgian Malinois

Hi All,
The following is extracted from the CV Q & A. It is a very important issue to be carefully considered:
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Author: Denise Ankarberg (.accel.atl.earthlink.net)

Date: 04-01-08 14:33

Someone removed all four tires & rims from a vehicle in the parking lot across from us two night ago. The sheriff was there in the AM. How could such a thing happen in this gated community? Where is security? Certainly that must have taken at least 1/2 hour.

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A great deal of money is spent on CV Campus Security. I am on the Security Committee and was involved in the vetting process and re-negotiating of the Security contract. Significant effort was expended.

Having said that, and speaking from some experience from my working career of 30 years in the Intel. Community I will tell you that the CV Campus is a Very soft target for crime.

First of all, as is often the case, much of the matter comes down to money. How much are you willing to spend to harden the facility, how many fences, and how high are you willing to see built.

The gate control system has many holes in it. Any caregiver or contractor who has access to your Unit may call in their buddies to do their evil deeds.

I have repeatedly suggested that the call-in system be Passworded, so that only the authorized unit owner may call-in guests. This suggestion has been ignored.

I have repeatedly suggested that cameras be placed at key choke points in the Village. Cameras are key tools assisting in crime solving; also ignored.

Nothing stops any Association from mounting Cameras integrated with motion detector driven lighting to record crimes in progress around the clock. The Police will welcome your recordings gladly.

Before you start complaining about Big-Brother surveillance and excessive cost, ask yourself the question; what is Security worth to you.

At a minimum this Campus requires:

1) Unbroken fencing 8 feet high enhanced by very unfriendly Flora with big thorns around the entire Campus. The laws regarding Barbed-wire need to be rolled back.

2) Additional rovers both hired and COP all equipped with dash mounted Video recorders.

Selected rovers to be enhanced with a trained dog, The Belgian Malinois is the Professionals dog of choice they are by far the best Crime dog and bomb Sniffer.

A bomb sniffing dog should be used prior to all major Clubhouse events; Shows, Delegate Assembly meetings, town meetings...!

3) High resolution hardened cameras with IR capability at all key intersections to allow selective Record and surveillance of the entire Village

4) Upgrading the Call-in system to require a numerical Password to authorize guests.

In closing; we live in a post 9/11 era; the security game is fundamentally changed, we are at war and we are a prime soft target for any reprobate who wishes to try us.

In discussing these sorts of things with the Chair of the Security Committee he laughs me off and says; "Where is the Nuclear Power Plant"
To that I say; we have cargo on board more valuable than the Nuclear Power Plant that cargo is our Unit Owners one and all.

I know how to harden the Campus, do you want to pay for it???

Dave