RB wrote:amber_fluid wrote:Why don’t we have metal detectors and security at doors like they do in countries overseas?
The little pricks would think twice about entering
I didn't know they had that sort of setup overseas, and potentially that sort of thing could be explored. But off the top of my head and without great thought:
1. Marion has tons of entrances, plus back/staff doors, delivery docks, etc. - all kinds of ways in, not at all like e.g. airports which are designed with security and restricted access at front of mind.
2. Even if you were able to have metal detectors at all entrances, staffing them with security to enable them to be effective at all would be very expensive.
3. Even if you had security at each door, there'd be little stopping folks just running through - obviously at an airport or similar you'd have armed security sprinting after them, and if necessary locking the place down and sweeping it till they caught them - not justifiable or practicable at a shopping centre with 300+ stores wishing to trade I wouldn't have thought.
4. You can easily procure knives and all sorts of improvised weapons in a large shopping centre - so not sure what security at doors is necessarily going to achieve in light of that.
5. I suspect the inconvenience to shoppers, especially at busy times, would be considered to outweigh any security benefits, such as there are, in light of the above.
The major shopping centres in the Philippines in Manila(which are huge) have metal detectors and security.
Generally only 2-3 main entry points.
You just walk straight through unless it goes off.
In a country where knives are an issue it definitely works over there.
