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Onehunga Residents Crime Prevention Public Meeting Essential Tools To Aid Theft Prevention Te Papapa 100 Year Reunion Learn more about Onehunga‘s lava caves ‗Spreading Out‘ begins at Dolphin Theatre Annual fee changes for Auckland businesses Take part in the Onehunga business house relay Auckland business confidence continuing to improve Repairing the crack inside St Peter‘s Church Tip for visual merchandising Onehunga Security Update
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Onehunga Residents Crime Prevention Public Meeting Wednesday 19 June, 6.30pm at Onehunga Community Centre Don Allan, Community Constable, with support from Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga MP, invite you to attend the Onehunga Residents Crime Prevention Public meeting on Wednesday 19 June 2013 at 6.30pm. The meeting is the perfect opportunity for residents and Police to come together to share information on community initiatives such as Community Patrols and Neighbourhood Support. Plus, Don will provide some valuable advice on crime prevention and when to report incidents to the Police. For further enquiries or to RSVP, please contact Don on 622 8722 or Connie on 622 0300.
Essential Tools To Aid Theft Prevention People, Practices and technology are the key
According to the Retailers Association, Retailers in New Zealand lose between $1m -$2m per day from shoplifting and we know that Onehunga businesses are being hit hard. Loss Prevention Manager for Foodstuffs, Dave Norton, approaches loss prevention in three steps: people, practices and technology. ― Use technology to reduce and prevent risk,‖ he says. ― However, if you don‘t have the people management and robust processes in place, technology will not give you the benefits it could.‖ Well-placed, obvious cameras are a vital deterrent and show that your business is wellprotected. On the other hand, hidden cameras monitor staff in employee-only areas like break rooms and warehouses. Camera technology has advanced in two main areas: greater resolution—thus providing a greater level of detail — and improvements in the capabilities of the software driving it. With the software advances, cameras can be integrated into other parts of security and POS systems. The camera software can be set to report when high-risk transactions occur such as refunds or voids or when integrated with electronic article surveillance (EAS) - to log whenever an alarm goes off. Another feature of the advances of technology is that camera software is now able to identify suspicious behaviour. Camera software is able to pick up a possible risk if someone is loitering around a particular car and certain licence plate-reading cameras can identify the vehicles of known theft offenders and trespassed persons And the good news is that high-resolution camera have come down in price significantly over the last years. Most mid- and high-end models are IP cameras, which operate over a wireless network and allow images to be captured over a larger area and in greater details — so, fewer cameras are needed. If you are interested in investing in the security of your business, whether it‘s good quality cameras or tags , please get in touch with us — if there is enough people interested we may be able to bulk buy.