Protect Your Place of Worship with Central Jersey Security Cameras

Protect your place of worship. Did you know that every church, synagogue, temple, mosque, and non-profit facility is entitled to a homeland grant for security of up to $150k this year? Don’t let this opportunity pass you by to secure your facility with the latest security measures, such as 4k surveillance camera/security camera systems that can give you the best quality and most secure surveillance of the surrounding facility including both the interior and exterior. Additionally, we can provide burglar alarm systems with the ability to have a direct police dispatch with mobile panic buttons. Central Jersey Security Cameras can even provide access control with controlled entry and immediate lockdown features for emergencies. With all these services your place of worship, non-profit organization, home, or business would benefit from the many layers of security by deterring criminals, reducing liability, and delivering you peace of mind.

Your security company must be fully registered, licensed, and able to comply with all regulations to be on the approved vendor list for this type of work. Central Jersey Security Cameras is proud to say we are fully able and have already completed multiple projects like this for organizations with the Homeland Security Grant.
Some of the organizations we have worked with over the past few years are listed here for your reference:

• The Salvation Army of Plainfield
• New Brunswick SDA Church – New Brunswick, NJ
• The Salvation Army of Red Bank
• Bethel Church –  Freehold, NJ
• The Salvation Army of Union
• Christ Family of God Church – Fords, NJ
• Christian Mission Church – Orange, NJ
• El-Shaddai Church – Roselle, NJ
• New Dorp Moravian Church – Staten Island, NY
• The Salvation Army of Kearny
• Old First Presbyterian Church – Newark, NJ
• Resurrection Lutheran Church – Hamilton, NJ
• St. Anthony’s Church – Red Bank, NJ
• The Salvation Army of Montclair
• St. Catherine of Siena Church –  Farmingdale, NJ
• St. James Church – Newark, NJ
• The Salvation Army of Perth Amboy
• St. John’s Baptist Church – Fairview, NJ
• The Marthoma Church – Staten Island, NY
• The United Methodist Church of Greater NJ – Neptune, NJ
• Alpha School – Jackson, NJ
• Alphabets Preschool – Asbury Park, NJ
• Alpine Montessori School – Oak Ridge, NJ
• Asbury Park School District Thurgood Marshall Elementary – Asbury Park, NJ
• First Pentecostal School – Jersey City, NJ
• The Goddard School of Bordentown – Bordentown, NJ
• Harbor School – Eatontown, NJ
• Howell High School – Howell, NJ
• Little Lamb Preschool – Staten Island, NY
• New HS Learning Center for High School – Short Hills, NJ
• New Road High School – Parlin, NJ
• Ocean Gate School – Ocean Gate, NJ
• Princeton Charter School – Princeton, NJ
• Royal Montessori Preschool – Manalapan, NJ
• The Country Day School of Colts Neck – Colts Neck, NJ
• The Goddard School of Princeton – Princeton, NJ
• The Goddard School of Flemington – Flemington, NJ
• Tower Hill School – Red Bank, NJ
• TPA Preschool – Jackson, NJ
• and fifteen YMCA Locations throughout New Jersey.

The Homeland Security Grant Program is comprised of three grant programs:

• State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
• Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
• Operation Stone Garden (OPSG)

Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) provides funding support for target hardening and other physical security enhancements to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack and located within one Fiscal Year 2018 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)-designated urban areas. Funding can be used for the acquisition and installation of security equipment on real property (including buildings and improvements) owned or leased by the nonprofit organization, specifically in the prevention of and/or protection against the risk of a terrorist attack. Eligible applicants may apply for a maximum of $150,000.00 per organization and eligible categories now include Equipment, Training, Planning, & Exercise

The Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) plays an important role in the implementation of the National Preparedness System by supporting the building, sustainment, and delivery of core capabilities essential to achieving the National Preparedness Goal of a secure and resilient nation.

As stated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, these four areas of mission-supporting responsibilities are what drive the Homeland Security Grant Program:

• Protecting the United States from terrorist threats is the founding principle and highest priority.
• Securing the Nation’s southern and northern borders along with air and sea ports of entry.
• Facilitating legal immigration and naturalizing new Americans, while prosecuting those who violate the country’s laws.
• Helping communities prepare, respond and recover from all facets of disaster.

Many places of worship are used also as youth centers, daycares, and schools, so it is also our top priority to ensure that all these facilities are as safe for the public as possible. The first lines of defense that all organizations such as churches, synagogues, temples, mosques and non-profit facilities need to have today are locked doors with a buzz in system.  These doors should have a camera pointing at the person at the door with an intercom system. With the buzz in system in place, a person at the door can state why they are there and actually show their ID before the doors are opened. Here at Central Jersey Security Cameras, we sell cutting-edge access control systems such as CDVI Atrium as one of our top selling products. Access control is a way of limiting access to a system or to physical or virtual resources. In computing, access control is a process by which users are granted access and certain privileges to systems, resources, or information.

In access control systems, users must present credentials before they can be granted access. In physical systems, these credentials may come in many forms, but credentials that can’t be transferred provide the most security. For example, a key card may act as an access control and grant the bearer access to a classified area. Because this credential can be transferred or even stolen, it is not a secure way of handling access control.

A more secure method for access control involves two-factor authentication. The person who desires access must show credentials and a second factor to corroborate identity. The second factor could be an access code, a pin or even a biometric reading.

There are three factors that can be used for authentication:

• Something is only known to the user, such as a password or pin.
• Something that is part of the user, such as a fingerprint, retina scan or another biometric measurement.
• Something that belongs to the user, such as a card or a key.

For computer security, access control includes the authorization, authentication, and audit of the entity trying to gain access. Access control models have a subject and an object. The subject, the human user, is the one trying to gain access to the object – usually the software. In computer systems, an access control list contains a list of permissions and the users to whom these permissions apply. Such data can be viewed by certain people and not by other people and is controlled by access control. This allows an administrator to secure information and set privileges as to what information can be accessed, who can access it and at what time it can be accessed.

One of the latest and greatest features we have to offer is a feature that unfortunately today is becoming more necessary in our everyday lives, “building lockdown” feature. For example, this would allow the organization to press either a fixed or mobile button to instantaneously lock down the entire facility by locking every single-entry door in the building. This feature would allow an organization to fortify the building so no unauthorized persons would be able to enter.

Cameras should be placed at each exterior entrance of the facility as well, so the front desk can see who is moving around the outside of the facility at all times. A greatly useful feature that we must not forget about is our Line Crossing Detection Systems. A Line crossing detection, or intrusion detection, is a function of your DVR, NVR or IP camera. What it does is that it instantly detects any motion in a certain “set”, which is a set area that is personally set by you for your alert needs. It will send immediate alerts to your smart device directly from the DVR, NVR  or IP camera. For example, you want to know when someone or something enters your driveway? So, you go into the software of your DVR, NVR or IP camera and start setting up specific areas by drawing lines across the driveway. Of course, these are not visible lines to the human eye since it is only a virtual line or perimeter you have created, but it acts just as good as a virtual tripwire. In essence, what it will do is activate the area when the area or line is breached and send you a notification either directly through the app or to your email, whichever option you choose. You can even have audible alerts right on site through an external siren or right from the DVR or NVR.
You can set this to work on schedules, certain hours during the day, certain days during the week or if you are on vacation and will be away from your place of worship, school, organization, business or even home and you want to be alerted when someone or something breaches your “set” area or areas. While both High Definition and IP cameras or the use of an NVR in conjunction with IP cameras will both do the job, there is more flexibility with the NVR and IP cameras in terms of having multiple cameras set up for line crossing/intrusion detection. There are also sensitivity settings that do adjust to meet your needs. For example, you may not want to know when a cat or small animal crosses the line, so you would adjust the scale to measure for larger objects.

Next, would be proper placement of cameras inside the facility. Each hallway and stairwell need to be protected. Cameras inside the facility keep your guests protected on so many levels. Many of these organizations also double as a school or even host after school care programs. Schools are now even adding cameras to the actual classrooms. This is often the proof to show parents how their child is behaving in the classroom, or proof of how a teacher may interact with your child. Cameras in the classroom often serve as not just protection for the child and the teacher, but to go back and see how both teacher and child can improve in the future. They will protect your children from bullies, protect teachers from falsely being accused of something and can protect your child from a teacher that may not be treating your child right.

Keep in mind, when choosing a company to install cameras and alarms at your facility that a company that offers a package is not really your best bet. You want to go with a company that will come to each location and does a safety audit to best meet the needs of each facility. A safety audit is something that should be done at least once a year to ensure all the systems are working properly and are still meeting your facility’s needs. This audit of the facility should not just be limited to security cameras and alarms. It should also include every point of entry and door access protection. Another tool your organization can use when looking for the company that is going to install your security system is to look them up in the Better Business Bureau. You want to use a company that is BBB accredited so you can look back on the company’s track record. Keep in mind too, when choosing the company or any company that may work in your schools, be sure that the staff is all background checked. Central Jersey Security Cameras/Jersey Shore Security will come work with your organization and their budget to best protect your most valuable assets. Our staff is background-checked and highly trained in the installation of all aspects of security systems. Central Jersey Security Cameras is Better Business Bureau Accredited A+. Call Central Jersey Security Cameras/Jersey Shore Security today for your free onsite evaluation and let’s start making the plans to have our certified technicians make your school, place of worship or non-profit center as safe as it can be. 732-333-0227 or visit our website www.centraljerseysecuritycameras.com.