• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • FAQ
  • Meet the Team
  • About The London Economic
  • Advertise
TLE ONLINE SHOP!
NEWSLETTER
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Film
  • Food
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Film
  • Food
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Lifestyle Money

5 Security Tips Your London Business Needs Right Now

You can never be too careful when it comes to protecting your business. Especially if you’ve opened up in a busy city like London. Investing in security should be a top priority right from the start. If you have a store, you’ve probably already invested a good amount of money into renting or buying it, […]

Sam Allcock by Sam Allcock
May 29, 2018
in Money
Surveillance camera (CCTV) circle shape hanging on ceiling

Surveillance camera (CCTV) circle shape hanging on ceiling

You can never be too careful when it comes to protecting your business. Especially if you’ve opened up in a busy city like London. Investing in security should be a top priority right from the start. If you have a store, you’ve probably already invested a good amount of money into renting or buying it, renovating, and furnishing it. You must not neglect to secure your investment properly.

Unfortunately, security is often overlooked as an unnecessary and unwanted expense, if you fail to invest in your security you must be prepared to fail – it’s as simple as that. Whilst you can implement some basic security measures yourself, it’s often better to seek professional advice from a security company in London. An experienced security company is best placed to advise you on the whole host of threats and risks posed to you and your specific business, and suggest ways and systems to negate those threats and risks. CCTV is a good starting point, and signs pointing out your security measures as we seek to deter, detect, deny and delay any theft of your products and property.

Here are the top security tips that your business needs right now:

Increase Visibility

Visibility of your products, your customers and your security measures! Make sure you can see your products and your customers, and potential thieves can see you and your security – these are the basic principles that you need to put in place. Installing mirrors and reducing the number of blind spots in your shop will reduce the temptation of theft considerably – don’t make it easy for them ‘Deter’ them. Depending on your products, good practice is to keep the smaller and more valuable items closer to the pay point, and higher up throughout the store so you can see people reaching for them. Whilst the larger items generally displayed lower down.

Install A CCTV system

This is a crucial part of security these days; ‘Detect’ – technology has come a long way, cameras are small producing very high-quality imagery and systems are reasonably affordable to most businesses. They’re a great step in making your business safer for you, your staff and customers. Too many small business owners overlook the need for surveillance and lose valuable profits due to opportunist thieves and organised criminal gangs. A CCTV system will help you catch burglars and shoplifters in action, the surveillance system can also help you investigate any internal theft by employees of your stock or each other’s possessions. Think of the security system as an investment, not as an expenditure – it is tax deductible after all!

RelatedPosts

Brexit Effect on Euro Exchange Rate

PayPal hopes cash card can transform their online business

Christmas officially starts on the 29th of November

Should We Still Be Keeping Our Salaries Secret?

Have A Clear Shoplifting Policy

You should never be ambiguous about your shoplifting policy; yes, shoplifting is against the law and we all know this – but let potential thieves know that you have a strong policy of prosecuting all thieves. Have large, colourful and clear signs pointing out your policy at the entrance point and throughout the store. This should go some way in letting thieves know that you mean business and are not a soft touch for their 5 finger discounts. Let them know that any theft will be reported to the police and that prosecution will be attempted regardless of the situation or product value.

Lock Up Your Merchandise

This may sound counterproductive at first but keeping your merchandise locked in display cabinets is a great solution to keeping your products safe from thieves, plus they’ll look great too. ‘Deny’ them the opportunity to commit theft against you. Of course, you can’t put everything into cabinets (unless it’s jewellery) just the smaller more valuable items that are more easily hidden and stolen.

Train Your Staff To Be Security Aware

Your staff are a prized asset too, so train and use them to the best of their ability to the benefit of you and your business. It doesn’t cost anything but time to teach them the basics in security, and what to look out for regarding theft and thieves – how to profile people, the obvious behaviour and actions to look out for. And teach them how to deal with thefts and attempted robberies; nothing beats a bit of role play to build confidence and teach your staff how to deal with these situations. After all, doing something is better than doing nothing – but never put them or yourself in harm’s way. Items can be replaced, a life cannot.

For further expert advice, speak to a security company in London with your requirements and concerns.

Support fearless, free, investigative journalism Support fearless, free, investigative journalism Support fearless, free, investigative journalism
Please login to join discussion

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Trending fromTLE

  • All
  • trending

What If We Got Rid Of Prisons?

Stress, fear and homelessness: The threat looming over families confronted with eviction

File photo dated 07/11/03 of a prison cell.

The Other Prison Pandemic

Latest from TLE

Hilarity at UK supermarket’s attempt to ‘de-Europeanise’ food products

Image by AdobeStock

Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for London, Monday 1 March 2021

Stocks In 2021

Watch – After billions spent on test and trace Sunak says people ‘trust us with their money’

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

Address

The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE
Company number 09221879
International House,
24 Holborn Viaduct,
London EC1A 2BN,
United Kingdom

Contact

Editorial enquiries, please contact: jack@thelondoneconomic.com

Commercial enquiries, please contact: advertise@thelondoneconomic.com

SUPPORT

We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. If you can, please show your appreciation for our free content by donating whatever you think is fair to help keep TLE growing and support real, independent, investigative journalism.

DONATE & SUPPORT

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Film
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech & Auto
  • About The London Economic
  • Meet the Team
  • Privacy policy

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.