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ADT's Community Security Schemes add steel to neighbourhood communities.
ADT's innovative and highly successful Community Security Schemes (CSS), are tailor-made for specific communities, taking into account the unique needs of each community.
A 'CSS' area is, in effect, a ring-fenced neighbourhood community which has got together as a legally constituted body run by a neighbourhood security committee, which enters into a partnership agreement with ADT to provide a dedicated and defined security service for that neighbourhood, in close liaison with SAPS. A CSS usually takes the form of one or more neighbourhood-dedicated Armed Response vehicles, ADT bicycle or foot patrols, CCTV cameras at key suburb or neighbourhood entry points, branded neighbourhood guard-houses, or a combination of these.
ADT is currently in partnership with almost 400 such CSS schemes around the country. In CSS areas, patrols and deterrence increases and criminal activity and loitering reduces, often dramatically.
Advantages
- With neighbourhood-branded Armed Response vehicles dedicated to specific neighbourhoods. patrolling increases, security visibility increases, and crime decreases.
- Dedicated ADT Bicycle or Foot Patrols increase visibility and deterrence.
- Added security visibility due to increased ADT signage on roads and houses.
- Suburb Access Control is available - linked to ADT Armed Response vehicles.
- CCTV, a significant information gatherer and crime deterrent can be erected at neighbourhood or suburb key routes.
- CCTV, a significant information gatherer and crime deterrent can be erected at neighbourhood or suburb key routes.
- "Meet and greet" home rendezvous service provided by known ADT officer
- CSS area specific and suburb focused security newsletters.
- CSS area crime statistics updates
- Domestic worker security awareness and training programmes
- Liaison with senior SAPS officers and more
