Uncertainty in the city.
Passing through the crowded lanes of Mumbai leaning your head out of a taxi, one can see nothing but skyscrapers lined up all together surrounded by large compounds, huge gates.
Guarding each of these apartments from the terrors of the night is a security guard who is lazing about.
The guards who are sick and tired of the drudgery of their work, occasionally checks the identity of the visitors.
A security guard stands outside our apartment all day. One doesn’t know how this trend for hiring security guards started?
The conventional security options available to the public are locks, chains, padlocks, steel cupboards.
In recent years local lock-making companies have tried and launched innovative products, but the level of technology still remains in the 20th Century mould.
Many like local market leader Godrej have launched Electronic Code Locks which have done reasonably well, but have failed to replace the
conventional key based locks.
A mere lock can’t secure our homes from theft, a security guard is an incapable as a lock.
To give you a real life example, my neighbour’s house has been burgled twice even though there was a twenty four hour security guard hired to stand right outside our house.
In both of these instances the guards were found unconscious either due to some intoxicant or were overpowered and lathied by the burglars.
We live in a constant fear that our house will be next that our personal belongings and life will be at risk.
One solution was to have a computerised locking system but even this did not deter the crafty robbers who managed to bypass the whole system by breaking in the door and leaving the lock intact.
When family returned from dinner they were met with a scene of chaos and confusion.
There belongings were scattered everywhere and the thieves had looted approximately Rs25000 worth of cash and ornaments.
The solution that the family came up with was to install a metal door.
Bureau Reports of Crime Branch revealed that there has been an increase in the number of burglaries in the city of Mumbai.
We live each day in the terror of our house being burgled and constantly wonder if our security guards are on the take.
We as concerned citizens await the solution to our security problem.
Passing through the crowded lanes of Mumbai leaning your head out of a taxi, one can see nothing but skyscrapers lined up all together surrounded by large compounds, huge gates.
Guarding each of these apartments from the terrors of the night is a security guard who is lazing about.
The guards who are sick and tired of the drudgery of their work, occasionally checks the identity of the visitors.
A security guard stands outside our apartment all day. One doesn’t know how this trend for hiring security guards started?
The conventional security options available to the public are locks, chains, padlocks, steel cupboards.
In recent years local lock-making companies have tried and launched innovative products, but the level of technology still remains in the 20th Century mould.
Many like local market leader Godrej have launched Electronic Code Locks which have done reasonably well, but have failed to replace the
conventional key based locks.
A mere lock can’t secure our homes from theft, a security guard is an incapable as a lock.
To give you a real life example, my neighbour’s house has been burgled twice even though there was a twenty four hour security guard hired to stand right outside our house.
In both of these instances the guards were found unconscious either due to some intoxicant or were overpowered and lathied by the burglars.
We live in a constant fear that our house will be next that our personal belongings and life will be at risk.
One solution was to have a computerised locking system but even this did not deter the crafty robbers who managed to bypass the whole system by breaking in the door and leaving the lock intact.
When family returned from dinner they were met with a scene of chaos and confusion.
There belongings were scattered everywhere and the thieves had looted approximately Rs25000 worth of cash and ornaments.
The solution that the family came up with was to install a metal door.
Bureau Reports of Crime Branch revealed that there has been an increase in the number of burglaries in the city of Mumbai.
We live each day in the terror of our house being burgled and constantly wonder if our security guards are on the take.
We as concerned citizens await the solution to our security problem.