This 9’x13’8” custom-designed bullet-resistant security booth was built by Par-Kut for television station Fox 2 in Detroit, Michigan.

From bullet-resistant booths to guard tour technology, how are you equipping your security officers to bring more value to the enterprise?

If you have an emergency, you might wait a while in Denver (average police response time of just under 13 minutes), while a serious emergency call in Chicago will garner a response within 3.5 minutes.

Traffic-related deaths are now the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages, according to the World Health Organization’s 2018 Global Status Report on Road Safety.

Data from 2017 included information on around 5.4 million incidents with 6,290,042 criminal offense, of which 61 percent were crimes against property, 23 percent were crimes against persons, and 16 percent were crimes against society (such as animal cruelty).

The fourth edition of the guidelines is completely revised and greatly expanded to now cover best practices on a district-wide level that relate to safety and security and additional areas such as school transportation, cybersecurity and network infrastructure, architectural features and emergency communications.

Robots are here and it’s not a gimmick. As in many industries, the introduction of machine learning, computer vision and robotics is changing the paradigm of security and facility teams.

The global market for security robotics will grow at a compound annual rate of 20 percent over the next five years to reach a total market value of $2.8 billion by 2023, according to an IDC Market Spotlight report titled, “Extending the Capabilities of Human Security Officers With Modern Robotics,” written by John Santagate, research director, service robots for IDC.

Middle and high school students feel safer with security officers and a moderate level of security camera use outside of their schools, but a greater deployment of cameras inside school buildings makes them feel less safe, according to a school climate survey of more than 54,000 students from nearly 100 schools in Maryland, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

The ability to identify and utilize technologies in new and different ways is one factor that is separating the good hospitals from the great.