NCJ Number
109050
Journal
Security Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Dated: (March 1987) Pages: 50-54
Date Published
1987
Length
5 pages
Annotation
When people walk through the main lobby of New York University Medical Center they are reassured by the prominent location of the security department's high technology monitoring center.
Abstract
The monitoring center is backed by planning, manpower, and state-of-art-equipment that includes 50 closed-circuit television cameras, hundreds of alarm points, a 48-door access control system, and an electronic guard tour installation. Employees are involved in security: employees all wear identification badges that control parking and access to certain areas. A computerized visitor access control system is under consideration. Computers also are used in access control, budgeting, scheduling, and parking and key control. In addition to providing special training for security personnel on special hospital security issues, the center conducts employee awareness campaigns to facilitate compliance with access control, loss prevention, and other security measures. Although security at the center also conducts investigations of theft and abuses, the primary focus is on prevention.