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FocusMicro Security Consultants can help self storage business owners take steps to reduce the likelihood of their facility being burglarized or a base for illegal operations. Many of the strategies that should be implemented at all self storage centers involve the development and implementation of security procedures, followed with scrupulous adherence and monitoring verification. Other tactics involve the installation and utilization of cost effective technology solutions to achieve a basic yet comprehensive web of security layers for the storage facility.

Screen storage unit renters during the application process. Require a picture I.D. and a physical street address, and then verify that the address is valid. Obtain a telephone number that is tied to the street address and not to a mobile phone.
Check out your managers by performing routine criminal and credit background checks through a local security agency. Verify their professional references and get secondary references from these individuals as well.
Make the facility manager visible with an office that overlooks the enterance to the facility. Ensure that the manager’s office has extensive windows so that not only can the manger visually scan a broad area, but customers can see the manager as well.
Use gated ingress and egress controls to the facility. FocusMicro security consultants can determine the best type of mechanisms for your facility’s layout, and provide password systems that record each customer’s entrance and departure from the property.
Develop a relationship with local law enforcement and stay in touch with them on a regular basis. Many agencies relish the opportunity to perform training and drills in self storage facilities because of the complexity they provide for officers and dogs alike.
Implement and enforce security protocols developed specifically for your facility. FocusMicro Security Consultants understand that each self storage company has its own unique needs and constraints. Development and the regular review of a comprehensive security program is essential to maintaining optimum security and safety for your property.
Install a comprehensive surveillance system that not only provides excellent coverage of the exterior grounds, but of inside hallways and offices as well. FocusMicro Digital Video Security Systems deliver crisp, clear color video that records 24/7 and maintains a video history for 60+ days. Easy to learn and use by non-technical people, still images and video clips can be exported and saved for future review by owners and law enforcement personnel. Owners can access both current monitoring activities and video history from any computer with internet access or a corporate LAN/WAN connection.
Display some of your security video monitors so that customers appreciate the scope of video coverage that the facility has. Do not display all of the monitors, keeping at least one that cannot be viewed by renters. This induces a degree of uncertainty regarding the extensiveness of the surveillance system.