Recommendations made to the chief of security of UOA

We had a fruitful discussion with the chief of security of UOA. We explained to him that the lax security at the guardhouse was one of the causes of the break-ins. Furthermore, despite all the break-ins, there was no effort at all to introduce some new measures to tighten the security at the guardhouse. From day one until now, nothing has changed at the guardhouse. They must take some measures to tighten the security at the guardhouse bacause that is the point of entry for Prima. The intruders must have come in through the guardhouse without being detected. After a short discussion, we proceeded to the guardhouse. I pointed out to him that the guards at guardhouse are not paying attention to the walk-in visitors at all. They are busy tending to the visitors in the cars . The fact that they are in the guardhouse all the time is hardly a deterance to someone who wants to enter to commit a crime. They should not make it convenient for tresspassers to enter .

In view of the weaknesses above, we introduced a few procedures for the security to consider. One of which is all the visitors with cars must be directed to the visitors' parking lots . The driver and his passengers would have to come out of their car and proceed to the guardhouse to register themselves. With this procedure, the guards would know the identity of all the occupants in the car and it would also ease the traffic congestion at the guardhouse. If the visitors' parking lots are full, they have to park outside. It's not our responsibility to provide a parking lot for every visitor. With this procedure, the visitors might be inconvenienced a little. But, as I had said in my previous blog, our priority is not the visitors but the safety of all the residents.

The guards must register the walk-in visitors. The right side of the guardhouse will be blocked. Only the left side of the guardhouse will be used as an entry and exit point for the residents. Two guards would be stationed outside the guardhouse at all time to keep an eye on the walk-in crowd and to register the visitors with cars.

We also recommended to the security to open the backdoor for the residents from block C and B to go out for their dinner. The backdoor would be opened at dinner time only. The residents must also display their resident passes before they are allowed to come in through the backdoor. Our main purpose of opening the backdoor at dinner time is to ease the human congestion at the guardhouse at that hour. With this move, we hope that it may enable the guards to monitor the walk-in crowds better.

The R.A. does not have the authority to tell the guards what to do. We have done our part by offering our views to them. We just hope that they would consider some of the recommendations that we made.

Goodnight and have a nice day!