School benefiting from Cost-effective security

An inner-city schools Oregon, which deals with more than twelve hundred students on a daily basis, continues to struggle problems that face most schools in its situation. Due to the fact that the school was actually located in a region where timber jobs have vanished, the school grapples with below average test grades, elevated rates of and absences and even dropout rates, along with petty theft as well as bullying. In addition to that due to the school shooting epidemic that plagued the country, the High School, like many schools throughout the country, put in place a behavior tracking and modification security system that includes zero tolerance for suspicious and dangerous actions.

An Enhanced school

About a couple of months ago, the school finished constructing a complex of four smaller academies or learning communities. The community has transformed the High School into a safer, more inviting learning environment through the assistance and funding of various local and state organizations as well as small-schools grant and a local school bond.

The newly constructed school campus has a relatively new, scalable surveillance camera system for surveillance and security purposes in the parking lots and close by vicinities. Moreover, the Axis network deployment, bought about in the past year, consists of more than thirty security cameras and can be upgraded to fit over forty cameras. These security cameras are deployed in eight district school properties, with the high school was served with about twenty of them. The majority of the twenty five cameras are located in the hallways, while a few monitor the outside surroundings of the school.

The security officers and administrators can sit at any computer anywhere in the school district and literally look through any camera thanks to the network-based system of the cameras. Not only that but, they also have the ability to actually move the cameras where they need to (inside a classroom or outside in the school parking lot). Not to mention that they can utilize the cameras to spot and prevent fights, bullying, theft, vandalism and students who are escaping from school or skipping classes. It goes without saying that the goal of the High School is not to earn marks by catching as many kids as possible while they are committing a violation or doing something wrong, but rather to break the cycle of misbehavior and ensure the tranquility and security of the school.

Size advantage

Numerous research results has indicated that low-income students in small high schools with good educational standards pass more courses, graduate and go on to college in greater numbers than those in schools that are bigger in size. In addition to that, students in small schools are far less likely to experience, loss of property, the demoralizing effects of vandalism or any form of physical danger.

As soon as any motion takes place the new camera system starts the recording process. From the day that the security cameras system was installed, a school's resource officer and a member of the police force, was able to successfully record and catch numerous violations.

For instance, a student was rapidly apprehended and arrested for falsely initiating the fire alarm system of the school.

The police officer later explained that causing everyone to evacuate the building for absolutely no reason at all is a  destructive is dangerous, and expensive  procedure that should not be done except in a real emergency.

On a similar case, the police officer was just learning how to mange the security camera when he suddenly happened to see a large knife that was flipped out of a car window in the student parking lot area. He quickly called a fellow officer, and they were able to quickly arrest a student for possessing a weapon on the campus property.

According to the security manager of the school, due to the fact that most of the kids do not actually know what is on tape and what is not, the system acts as a hindrance or a deterrent and helps to stop trouble before it even begins.

A safer and more inviting learning environment is made possible by the Skylight interiors, security cameras as well as the four small academies. This particular campus is an open property and students have the opportunity to leave the campus at lunch time, however administrators note that they tend to stay on campus a lot more than they used to due to the fact that the campus environment welcoming is more safer and than it ever used to be.

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