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Assessment of security at city hall New York, 15 Center Street
Introduction
The New York City hall is the seat of the New York City government. The building is located at the center of the city hall park, civic center, lower Manhattan. The New York City hall is the oldest city hall in the United States of America and it houses the mayor’s office, the staff of some of the municipal agencies (White & Willensky, 2000). Despite its age, the building has been installed with various traditional and new security systems. This essay is an analysis of the various, but not conclusive, security measures that have been installed in the city hall building.
Exterior and access
The building is protected from random access by having an external stone wall and the front face on the entrance side has a medium height metal fence installed to prevent intrusion from the street. In the immediate front of the building, a three-step staircase has been used in place of a fence. The three-step staircase is adequate to prevent motor vehicles from being driven to the building. To access the building, an open-for-access doorway is used at the front-side of the building....
However, during off-office hours, the door is under key and lock.
In addition to the key-and-lock security system, all external doors and windows have alarms that are set on during non-office hours when the building is closed. There are both fire detection and intrusion detection alarm system in the building. For this paper, primary focus is on the intrusion detection alarm system. This alarm system is set to detect any authorized entry into the building during off hours. To this effect, the alarm system detects any open doors and windows, including the breaking of any window glass vanes.
Interior
The New York City Hall has numerous rooms, and to promote security within the building various systems are used, some of which are not revealed in this paper, for security purposes. The first is CCTV systems which function to record entry into the building as well as movements within the building. This is meant to keep a record that security agents can revert to in case there is a breach of security within the building. The second is the use of access codes…
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