Like every public administration, managing ID/access badges in municipal security comes with significant challenges that include organizational changes, continually shifting economic factors, regulatory compliance and emerging technologies and best practices.
For one overarching security division, badging several thousand employees in several hundred different facilities can prove to be very complex. According to Walter Chan, Supervisor of Corporate Security in the City of Toronto, there is no one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter template to government ID/access control cards.