Category: News

Installing turnstiles as part of an organizations’ security/monitoring/access control system can help prevent employee theft, inventory shrinkage, vandalism, and shoplifting, experts have argued. With access control / entry control security systems, it becomes easy to control unauthorised entry into your business. A business should not give employees the freedom to access all offices. For instance,… Read more »

A metal fence and a moat is being built around an Andover field to stop travellers after more than 40 caravans and cars illegally broke through the barriers at Picket Twenty to set up camp on the sports pitch last year, a news report has revealed. Test Valley Borough Council has increased its security measures… Read more »

A retail store has revealed plans to install new car park barriers in order to prevent car-related anti-social behaviour, much to the relief of local residents and authorities. Local councillor Shauna Cusack yesterday expressed her relief that the barriers she has been lobbying Home Bargain’s central management to install are now underway. Welcoming the move,… Read more »

Multiple folding steel bollards are set to be deployed at an Aberdeen city centre car park, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The proposals were lodged by Aberdeen Performing Arts for the posts at the staff facility at His Majesty’s Theatre in October. They will be used to… Read more »

It is hoped that a new car park barrier system and extra parking capacity at Raigmore Hospital will sort out the parking issues that have affected it in recent years, a news report in the local media can reveal. At least one of the new overspill car parks will be open while barriers are also… Read more »

Bollards are set to be installed to stop people driving through a gateway in the city walls after the previous barrier broke, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The measures will be installed at Victoria Bar and will mean only residents, cyclists and emergency services will be able… Read more »

The Rusholme sixth-form college has asked for planning permission to deploy nine-foot high fences to stop people breaking in, a news report can reveal. The Xaverian College argues that this access restriction solution would prevent acts of ‘minor vandalism’ that regularly affect the college, according to student support vice-principal Simon Channell. He wrote in planning… Read more »

Two hospitals in Carlisle and Whitehaven are making almost £1m in parking by charging both their own staff and visitors, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, which is the new trust resulting from the merger of North Cumbria University Hospitals… Read more »

The security and safety of people working or visiting buildings should be the top priorities when deciding to deploy access controlled entry points such as turnstiles, gates or revolving doors, experts in the field have argued. When choosing to install security entrances such as turnstiles or security revolving doors, it is important to give special… Read more »

A variety of automated, manually-retractable and static bollards are being deployed across Canterbury as part of the city council’s city centre security bollards scheme, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The £789,000 project is being put in place on the advice of counter-terrorism police to stop a hostile… Read more »