Securing any kind of properties can cost quite a bit of money. Once you realize that the cheapest 24-hour security guard post costs $7,500 per month, it quickly becomes obvious that you need a reliable way to monitor your guards. That’s a lot of money to pay someone who sleeps on the job or spends time playing mobile games. Unfortunately, there are a lot of barriers that stand between you and excellent security.
Guard Tour Systems Don’t Work
Traditional guard systems always depend on a middle man. The person in charge of getting the data and delivering reports is usually the same person responsible for how the guards comply with the routes. No wonder all reports are always perfect! These legacy guard patrol systems are also a headache to maintain since it takes at least 5 steps and physical presence to get the information out of it, who can blame someone for copy-pasting reports that have to be sent on a daily basis. Our guard tour system eliminates the middleman and takes away all the troubles of building reports and retrieving the data by automatizing route assignment, compliance alerts and report sending.
Relying on People to Monitor Each Other
Some companies try to improve guard activity by having other guards report on each other or even sending a supervisor. As you can imagine, not only is this practice extremely expensive (now our sleeping guard is costing the time of another person) but also ineffective. How many times per day can you send someone? Can you imagine a guard telling on another guard? As soon as the guard is alone again you can bet everything will go back to how it was in no time. In combination with our guard tour system, we allow task assignment and completion so your guards receive automatic tasks to comply with. This will keep all personnel active and busy while you relax and receive a compliance summary at the end of the shift.
Misuse of Resources
Auditing guard performance can reveal flaws in your security patrol system. Unfortunately, performance audits cost a lot of money. Even if an audit discovers an issue with your security, it doesn’t solve the problem. Audits also provide an incomplete picture of how well your guard tour system works. You can make some changes, but the system’s flaws return within a few months. No matter what you do, employees will break the rules when they have a chance. Pointing your security cameras at guards can give you some insight into how well they perform, but you get limited results. Instead of using the cameras to monitor your property, you have to waste the resource checking the work of guards. It’s a double expense that doesn’t make sense for most companies. Also, some states have laws that prevent you from monitoring guards with security cameras.
Solve All These Issues Right Now
Guarnic offers a better solution with mobile guard tour software that gives you a complete overview of your security team. Give your security a boost today with very little investment.
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