Serious Fewer security guard jobs in the future

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

In the future jobless Sinkies may face greater competition when they apply to work as security guards.

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"Looking out for you, from elsewhere"
The Sunday Times, page A11
October 9, 2016

AT THE TAN BOON LIAT BUILDING off Outram Road is an office about half the size of a basketball court with just over 40 computer screens.

In it, more than half a dozen people remotely monitor over 6,000 locations in Singapore.

This is the central monitoring station of the Ademco Security Group, and the nerve centre of surveillance for the company's clients in the public and private sectors.

Instead of having their own security guards monitor their premises, these companies rely on Ademco to do everything from monitoring their carparks to looking out for medical emergencies and preventing would-be intruders from trying to break-in.

Security companies told The Sunday Times this is what surveillance and security will increasingly look like - with monitoring done off-site, reducing the need for security guards on the ground.

Certis Cisco, which is handling security for these malls, said security manpower needs for these malls have been reduced by one-fifth.


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