Things you Should Know about Parking Services Security
Violent incidents take place very often in parking lots.
Actually the number of aggressive incidents occurred in parking
lots is, unfortunately increasing from one year to another.
Parking services have been put in the position of being held
liable for many of the incidents occurring in their premises.
They have recently realised that everything has a price
(including the life of a human being) especially when it comes
to insurance or liability purposes. When it comes to a violent
incident, everything is being reduced to your parking lot's
security system. Your parking security system will save you from
being held liable or not for an aggressive incident.
Oddly enough, it seems that parking services aren't as safe as
one would think; the security budget is no bigger than 10-15
percent. In this situation there is no wonder that parking lots
are the locations where most of the crimes committed on a
property lead to lawsuits.
It seems that the parking services most often sued in security
liability cases are the multi-unit residential parking lots.
Commercial services come in second place, while restaurants
industries are in third place. But the good thing about all this
huge amount of lawsuits is the fact that parking services have
improved their security measures. Consequently, most of the
latest verdicts in liability cases were defence verdicts and the
number or awards have been reduced.
Another reason for this increase of defence verdicts is the fact
that parking owners or managers have decided to be more
proactive when it comes to crime prevention activities.
But, despite parking services' efforts to reduce the number of
criminal incidents, assault and battery were the most frequent
type of crimes that have lead to security liability claims on
behalf of the victims.
It seems that larger parking lots like those belonging to
shopping malls, medical centres or college campuses are facing
much more security problems than smaller facilities. More
problems mean more liability lawsuits. A simple explanation for
this situation is the fact that security measures are less
powerful in larger parking lots.
Consequently, if you are thinking of opening your own parking
lot, think thoroughly about the security measures or you'll be
soon buried in lawsuits. And, in order to keep things under
control, limit yourself to a smaller facility. You won't regret
it later.