Do Fake Security Cameras Really Deter Crime?

Many business owners are often discouraged when it comes to buying video surveillance equipment because of the high cost that is involved. Oftentimes small businesses have to go without video surveillance equipment because they simply can’t afford it. Statistics have proven that businesses that have a video surveillance system are much less likely to be burglarized than businesses that don’t. Knowing this, where does that leave the small business owner who is on a shoestring budget and just trying to get by?

I would like to make a suggestion to you that may help prevent crime at your place of business. This suggestion is that you install fake security cameras or a combination of fake cameras and real cameras. A fake security camera can be just as much of a deterrent as a real security camera. Would be shoplifters or burglars don’t have any idea that they’re not looking at a real camera. These types of individuals are much less likely to commit a crime if they know that the chances of them being caught on video are high.

Fake security cameras are often referred to as dummy security cameras. A dummy security camera is often just as realistic looking as a real security camera. There are many models to choose from if you are interested in purchasing some. There are several advantages to using dummy security cameras. One of them is that you can often purchase many more dummy cameras then you could actually buy if they were real cameras.

Many people find that the best video security system uses a combination of real equipment and fake equipment. This is a great way to stretch your budget even farther. You can use what little funding you do have for a security camera system and install real video cameras in the most important locations of your business. You can then install a fake surveillance camera in several other places around your business to create the illusion that you business is being thoroughly monitored.

In most cases you will be able to purchase fake surveillance cameras that are exact replicas of the real one. If you have this option, I would definitely recommend do it because your employees and customers will have no idea which cameras are real and which cameras are fake. It’s extremely important that if you do install fake security cameras that you don’t even tell your most trusted employees that the cameras are not real.  Security and Loss Prevention professionals will be the first to tell you that it’s often the people that you would think would be the least likely to steal from you that actually end up doing so.

Another think to keep in mind is that people aren’t very good at keeping secrets as general rule.  If you tell one employee that the video cameras aren’t real, they will tell someone that they think they can trust.  That person will then tell someone that they think they can trust and before you know it everyone will know that the video camera system is fake, even the shoplifters.  It’s important that you understand that a fake security system can be just as effective at deterring crime as a real security system but only if no one knows that the cameras aren’t real.

When you install fake security cameras at your place of business, you should do it after hours when no other employees are working.  You shouldn’t tell anyone about the fact that you’re installing a surveillance system. You should also arrange for the entire job to be finished by the time you open for business the next day.  This way, no one will have any idea that some of the cameras might be fake.   It’s also a good idea to plaster signs around your business informing people that you have a video security system.  These signs are nearly as effective at deterring crime as the cameras themselves! They are even cheaper than the fake security cameras that you’ll be buying so you’ll be able to post them all over the place.

If you’re clever and creative, there’s no reason you should have to spend much money at all to deter crime in your store or other place of business.

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