Security Technology and Equipment
This domain tests how equipment supports a guard's decisions and where technology creates legal exposure. The machine detects; the guard decides and records.
Core rules
- CCTV: know coverage gaps, clean camera domes, check time synchronisation, set retention, restrict recorder access, and export with a log entry. Footage is personal data under RA 10173; release only to police or authorised persons through the proper request.
- Access control systems: cards, fobs, PINs and biometrics; anti-passback; lost-card deactivation; no sharing of credentials. Tailgating remains a human-control problem.
- Detection: PIR for movement, door contacts for opening, glass-break for shattering, beams for perimeter. Know the zone map before responding to an alarm.
- Communications and personal equipment: radio check at shift start, spare battery, torch, body-camera policy covering consent, retention and no editing.
- Maintenance: log faults, tag out faulty equipment, and never bypass a detector to silence nuisance alarms without authorisation.
Worked example
CCTV shows a cleaner placing a phone in her bag. Reasoning: the footage is evidence, not content. Export the clip with the correct time, record the export in the log, restrict access, and give it to the investigator or police on request; do not show it to other staff or post it online. Your statement describes what the camera showed and how it was preserved.
Traps
Posting footage on social media; assuming cameras replace patrols; ignoring time drift that breaks the timeline; sharing a supervisor's access card.