5 Reasons Your Business Needs CCTV

When eval­u­at­ing secu­ri­ty options for your busi­ness, most secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als will tell you that CCTV is a must. But it’s impor­tant to under­stand why.

CCTV – short for “closed-cir­cuit tele­vi­sion” – has come a long way over the last sev­er­al decades. Today’s com­mer­cial video sur­veil­lance sys­tems offer a wide array of fea­tures to give you a clear­er insight into what’s hap­pen­ing at your busi­ness, day or night. It pro­vides a crit­i­cal lay­er of secu­ri­ty for your prop­er­ty, peo­ple and assets while serv­ing as a pow­er­ful crime deter­rent.

Here are five rea­sons to con­sid­er CCTV for your busi­ness.

1) 24/7 video surveillance

On the most fun­da­men­tal lev­el, the most sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fit of a CCTV sys­tem is that it allows you to see what’s hap­pen­ing at your busi­ness. Whether dur­ing busi­ness hours or after, your secu­ri­ty cam­eras can be posi­tioned to watch retail coun­ters, entrances, stock­rooms, receiv­ing areas and vir­tu­al­ly any oth­er sites, indoors or out.

This sur­veil­lance pro­vides peace of mind that you always have a watch­ful eye over your busi­ness, even if you’re not there. This can deliv­er sev­er­al oth­er secu­ri­ty ben­e­fits, as we illus­trate below.

2) Evidence of crimes

When theft, van­dal­ism or oth­er crimes hap­pen at your premis­es, your CCTV sys­tem ensures that these events are cap­tured on video. The video record­ing can be used as evi­dence for pros­e­cu­tion and insur­ance claims. If goods are stolen, the video also increas­es the chances of catch­ing the crim­i­nal and return­ing the items to your busi­ness.

3) Internal theft

No busi­ness is immune from employ­ee theft. So when it hap­pens, you want to ensure these crimes are caught on cam­era. For exam­ple, if items have gone miss­ing, you can check record­ed footage to see what hap­pened. That footage will also give you the legal jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for employ­ee ter­mi­na­tion or oth­er dis­ci­pli­nary actions.

4) Crime deterrent/loss prevention

The pres­ence of CCTV cam­eras alone helps to deter crim­i­nals. Thieves, van­dals and your work­ers will think twice about com­mit­ting a crime when they know their actions are being record­ed. This pre­vents crimes from being engaged in the first place. This serves as an essen­tial tool in your loss pre­ven­tion efforts.

5) Legal requirements for CCTV

By law, some types of busi­ness­es must have CCTV sys­tems due to the nature of the goods sold or the high crime risk. One exam­ple is cannabis stores, which are need­ed to main­tain tight secu­ri­ty pro­to­cols. Under the Cannabis Licence Act of 2018 (CLA), “A secure, high-res­o­lu­tion sur­veil­lance sys­tem must be in place at all times” at these stores. Addi­tion­al­ly, the law states that cam­eras must be posi­tioned at the store’s inte­ri­or and exte­ri­or. And the 24-hour video record­ings must be retained for a min­i­mum of 30 days.

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