Securing Courthouses & Correctional Facilities

A proper understanding of the facility or facilities being secured is critical. Thoughtful, consultative planning here prevents congested checkpoints and accounts for easily overlooked aspects of facility security like unmanaged entrances, VIP arrivals, and staffing optimization. Beyond that, this is the critical phase where administrators and security teams need to identify their key threat items – typically the smallest threat they want to detect. This is also the phase in which the claims of vendors should be thoroughly tested – if they claim to ignore an item you don’t want to find, like laptops, can they do so while still finding your key threat placed next to it? If they claim they can find knives, can they do it consistently and deliver the throughput they promised at first?

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Poorly trained security staff and supervisors will compromise your throughput, your security, and your visitor experience. Not only that, but it will breed resentment for the whole project of improving public safety. Garrett provides FREE online training with certificates to all customers because we believe strongly that proper security education should be available to everyone. It’s also free to non-customers – we care about the safety of your facility even before we start our partnership. We don’t want to keep you from benefitting from the lessons we’ve learned in our decades of security experience.

In addition, Garrett offers optional live remote and on-site training for those who want a deeper dive with a manufacturer security expert. Regardless of which option you choose, our goal is for your team to feel ready and to be ready when personnel first start moving through your new checkpoints.

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For high security applications like courthouses and correctional facilities, training in process must be reinforced by training in protocol. Audit compliance, record-keeping, and regular verification of technology settings and performance all help reinforce the maintenance of a culture of security. Good security mindsets are built on little security habits.

• Verify settings daily or with every shift change.
• Record ingress count and alarm statistics daily.
• Evaluate settings effectiveness against new or recent targets as needed or at least quarterly.
• Check with manufacturer annually for updated software or other technology improvements.
• Every two years, refresh staff training and certifications.

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