Security, Business Security, And Community Security,

An Analysis From A Business Forensics Perspective,

EDITORIAL

Aboubakar YARI1 & Venus YARI1

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In business security, human is the best security is the best security agent.  The human will apply technics embodied in his brain to create a safe business environment. Secondary security utilities such as specialized equipments and motor vehicles are valuable tools to aid the human. Lack of equipments is a major argument made in many developing countries, including Benin republic to justify security deficiencies.  By experience working in developing countries, we argue that the equipment argument does not hold in many instances, and poor skills are a major barrier to security. In these situations, more equipment’s won’t solve the problem. Here we perform a comparative analysis of community level business security in two communities of long term residency of the authors, city A in a developing country and city B in a developed country. Here, we analyze in light of equipment’s used by police and outcome of security activities.

One point is clear, without skills in the brain all the equipment of the world won’t be of any good.  

City A:

Many cars and many donated equipment’s are routinely used.

Low frequency in police presence.

City B:

Few cars and many bicycles.

High frequency of police present, the police will appear in every street more than once per hour.

Comparative Analysis:

In the developing world city A, the strategy of nil to low presence in streets has a nil to negligible crime prevention deterrence effect, compared to city B in the developed world with felt heavy police presence. Yet the strategy of using many cars in the developing c6untry city A is more expensive. With one good meal the police officer on the bike provides security just by showing his presence. The police officer in the car will need more money for fuel; it’s  expensive equipment, more money spent and less security provided to the community.  

We conclude that in many developing world city the equipment argument is overstated.