Measure type: Access control
Access control is the measure of reduction of risk by regulating and controlling the flows of traffic into and out of an area of object
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Description
This approach involves architectural features, mechanical and electronic devices, and related means for maintaining prerogatives over the ability to gain entry:
- Key control systems
- Locked gates, doors, windows
- Electromagnetic doors unopenable from outside
- Deadbolt and vertical-bolt locks
- Metal door/window shutters
- Protective grills over roof access openings
- Fenced yards
- Vertical metal or small-mesh (unclimbable) fencing
- Reduced number of building entrances
- Unclimbable trees/bushes planted next to building
- Prickly bushes planted next to site to be protected
- Sloped windowsills
- Elimination of crank and gear window mechanisms
- Steeply angled roofs with parapets and ridges
- Use of guard dogs
- Use of student photo identification
- Partitioning off of selected areas during "downtime" hours
- High curbs along areas to be protected
Essential conditions
Requirements to the urban environment
Effectiveness
Economic effectiveness
Access control does not only reduce the risk of security threats, but also generates economic impact as a security measure that mitigates the impact of crime but also alters the behaviour of the offender(s). Primarily, the economic impact of security measures is the costs of the security measures. Besides that, there are also costs and benefits regarding the secondary impact of security measures, such as displacement effects.
Side effects
Footnotes and references
