How good is the security in your school/workplace?

Question

It was all I could do to keep myself from bursting out laughing when in an assembly today during the first day of school my vice principal announced that we now had surveillance cameras throughout the building and outside the school, alarms, and extra locks on the doors. There are even some of these new super-secure locks on most of the bathrooms. I have a feeling my idiot classmates are still going to try to give us a bomb threat every month or so. (We are a school of 7th and 8th graders! Previously there were 9th graders here too). I think they aren't taking any chances after the whole graffiti fiasco last year, where during winter break some guys snuck in, vandalized a bathroom, and spraypainted the building.

Aside from this, there is now a Hall Monitor roaming the building. And like the last few years, there are always teachers stationed in front of bathrooms.

What's really sad though is two years ago, we were one of the top public high schools in the state. We've gone way down the list.

Answer 1

work  is actually fair as we have deputies stopping in all the time but there are times when there is none

Answer 2

Wow that sounds oddly familiar, haha! How I dreaded middle school/high school.

Our middle school wasn't very well secured. We had a few hall monitors at the corners of hallways asking to see hall passes/bathroom passes, but no security cameras. I believe the front doors to the school were locked, but I know the back doors and side doors weren't. Never had any graffiti problems other than kids writing stuff on eachothers' lockers with perminent markers.

My highschool was the worst. Bomb threats, fights alllll the time, kids bringing in knives....in the suburbs, not even the city! Anyways, there were hall monitors at every corner. Hall monitors in front of every bathroom. Our administration roamed the hallway with these big, bulky heavy-duty walkie-talkies to keep in touch with one another. We always had a monitor in the parking lot and riding in a golf cart around the premesis. No cameras that I know of, the school was definitely too cheap for that. We always had police in the buildling, at least two at a time. K9 units came in frequently to sniff lockers and rooms to check for drugs, lockers were randomly searched all the time, bags were checked sometimes.

At our dances, breathalyzers were given, and purses/bags were searched.

Where I work, we're a small business. We have locks on our doors, and a security alarm system. That's about it. What's going to happen though? I doubt one of the dogs is planning to blow up daycare...(then again, you never know....those little puppies look so cute an innocent, and the next thing you know they've got an M80 in their mouth and are yelling that if they don't get their biscuits right that second they're going to blow the place to bits!)

My college is a bit better. It's in a college town and shares the campus with a very well-known high-class university which has excellent security. There are stations at almost every street corner with phones and buttons to push in case of emergency. Cops and security guards are always out and about. Both doors to my college have a security desk in front of them. The doors won't open unless you have a school ID which is activated to open them, and the same goes for the parking gates. In fact, you need your school ID to get into rooms in the buildling as well. Certain people are granted access to certain areas while others are not. The security is pretty tight in that instance. Our parking lots are monitored by camera...the entire campus more or less has cameras. There are undercover police officers out and about all the time.

This is probably because the campus is smack dab in the middle of the worst neighborhood in cleveland, haha. It is it's own saftey bubble in that area...go outside of the 'bubble' and you're asking for trouble! But on the campus you've very very safe, for the most part.

Answer 3

At work we don't have security. I live in a small town where violence isn't a big deal around here.

Answer 4

I think we have a camera or two (?) all pointing at the front desk, an alarm system that goes off on its own accord every once in a while, and the owner brings in her Doberman who walks around and checks everyone out on a regular basis.

There hasn't been in an incident in the ten years the salon has been there - whether it be because no one wants to break in and steal dog shampoo and towels or because we are five minutes walking distance from a police station.

My high school had HORRIBLE security. We were required to wear IDs around our necks, which no one did and because it had 250-something acres with different farm animals we worked with there was the occasional lost chicken or horse left in the wrong barn that no one could explain. We also had the occasional tourist just walking around, pointing at all the different animals like it was a zoo instead of a school.

Answer 5

Yesterday was my first day of college and guess what I bumped into..?

A security guard, inside the building. There are quite a few of them and lost of cameras.

We also have ID cards that we swipe to let us in. We have to wear them at all times (staff & pupils) they are BRIGHT yellow.

I think the security is good, far better than in high school, one time the neighbors dog managed to get into the playground.  

Answer 6

Where I work theres a security guard

Hes middle aged, overweight and talks with a lisp

Hes also perhaps the most non-confrontational person I've ever met and a thoroughly nice fella.

Theres nothing to steal where I work. I once tried to steal a moment to myself but that didn't work out

We do do have personal attack alarms in our interview rooms and a bomb klaxon (a relic from the 1980s) they still test every week and it sounds just like one of those ones you hear in black and white World War Two films

Answer 7

we don't have security, that's why all of the staff is armed with shotguns ;)

Answer 8

Oh gosh. That's funny! The security guards at work are asleep most of the time when I come in on the weekend. I have to blow the horn to wake them up to let me in. Sometimes they are asleep with the gates open. I feel so safe...haha.