Balancing head counts among security officers and patrols.

Jun 1, 1999 12:00 PM, Access Control & Security Systems Integration Staff

Balancing head counts among security officers and patrols.o reduce personnel needs.But the other side of this is ADT bringing in Borg-Warner to solve a problem that technology can't solve.

- Protective Services-Tiscor and Borg-Warner-ADT, the Westlake Village, Calif.-based Pinkerton's Inc. has recently introduced a strategy designed to sell security as a single, integrated package instead of individual products and services. ves that companies will consolidate all security functions with individual providers, who will assess needs, design an optimum security program that involves technology as well as people, and offer a security package at a single price. Such an approach would eliminate concerns about the line item costs of single security components or how the access control system is wired into the security center or how many security officers patrol a facility. Instead, security directors will evaluate the value of overall security against its cost and select suppliers accordingly.Corporate America." Seventy-five percent of these companies outsource at least part of their security officer needs and 73 percent outsource at least some of their patrol services.

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