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Security Consulting:

METROPOLITAN Security and Investigations, stands ready to assist you in
assessing your security needs. From inspecting and observing what is and not
in place now, to making recommendations on what we professionally feel you
need, to writing an extensive Security Standard Procedures Manual for your
company, to implementing electronic security and/or manned security stations.

MSI provides organizational analysis of threats (risk assessment), existing
security strategy review, and implementation of cost effective defensive
strategies.

The term “security survey” is a deceptively powerful phrase – it engenders
strong but radically different reactions in different people. To corporate
management, it holds the promise of uncovering new operational efficiencies
that will lead to drastic reductions in the bloated overhead costs associated
with maintaining in-house security programs. To the security manager, it raises
the specter of some outsider looking over his shoulder and finding fault with
his operation – gleaning little secrets from his subordinates – upsetting the
delicate balance of the “empire” he has cobbled together around himself over
the years.

To the vendor of security goods and services who offers to conduct the “free”
survey, it represents a golden opportunity to get deep inside the company and
to discover new applications for those goods or services.
It should not be this way. The prospect of conducting a security survey should
not arouse such conflicting emotions. After all, the ultimate purpose of the
survey is to better conserve the resources of the company – all of its resources
– capital resources – intellectual resources – human resources. This type of
objective analysis can only serve to benefit the entire company and everyone in
it.

If the proposed security survey has any hope at all of getting off the ground, let
alone succeeding, it must be endorsed by top management of the company. It
is always very helpful if the President of the firm circulates a letter announcing
the purpose and scope of the survey and soliciting the cooperation of all
employees with the endeavor. As one of the first steps in the survey process,
arrange for the consultant to meet and interview heads of selected departments
throughout the company.

This accomplishes a number of things: it allays any fears a manager might have
about the consultant nosing into the affairs of his department; it assures the
cooperation of lower level supervisors in that department; in soliciting the
security concerns and opinions of those department heads at the outset, it
makes them part of the process, and offers a greater likelihood that, once the
survey is complete, its findings and recommendations will be more readily
accepted and implemented.

A good security consultant talks to everyone, from the President on down to
the janitor. These conversations typically provide a wealth of information
relating to the culture of the corporation. The consultant will gain invaluable
insights into the perceptions of employees regarding a broad spectrum of
issues relating to security including workplace safety, management/labor
relationships, morale, etc.. Once employees come to know the purpose of the
security survey, it is not at all uncommon for many of them to confide in the
consultant regarding known thefts and other losses.

Don’t expect miracles from the consultants. Don’t expect that all of his
observations and recommendations will be totally new and improved. In the
final analysis, he may well end up telling you things that you and/or others have
known or suspected for a long time. But the value of his survey will have been
in that it was timely, thorough and objective.