The Bewator Entry access system makes the handling of clients safer and easier |
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Bewator Group AB
P.O. Box 1475
Solna, SE-171 28
Sweden
Press release date: January 18, 2006
In order to control the flow of people and to create a safe working environment, the non- institutional unit of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service in Stockholm has chosen to protect their premises with the access control system Bewator Entro.
The non-institutional care unit's primary task is to keep in regular contact with the clients, supervise and help them back to a normal life outside. The clients are either sentenced to a non-custodial sentence, going through an evaluation or on remand pending a trial.
The non-institutional care unit's work is primarily done by regular visits from the clients to the supervisor who is in charge of the case. As some clients tend to be aggressive, some have addiction problems or some are just plain threatening, good security is important.
"The access control system covers both the outer protection shield and the inner security zone through which the clients are taken for the meetings", says Patric Ahlgren, IT and security manager at the Prison and Probation Service in Stockholm, non-institutional care.
The area is called the Security zone and separates the facilities where clients and their supervisors meet in special meeting rooms. The eleven meeting rooms all have a Prox Codoor, a proximity system reader for inner doors that is connected to the Bewator Entro system.
The meeting rooms are booked by the staff themselves via their own intranet. It is only the supervisor who will have access to the room during the booked time.
As a precaution they have chosen to have only one access tag for each meeting room. Prior to every visit the supervisor will have to sign for a pack containing a portable alarm and the access tag for the pre-booked room.
The offices of the supervisors and administrative staff of the non-institutional care unit are closed for visitors. Only staff members with their own access tags and personal pin numbers have access.
− It is very easy to adjust access, so you can make it work just the way you want it to, says Patric Ahlgren.
A total of 24 doors have Bewator's proximity tag readers that, apart from access control, are also used for turning off the alarm. Access is given via Bewator Entro's window-based software.
− In the software I can easily control the flow of people through the building so that clients can only enter the area used for visits.
For more information: www.bewator.com Email: info@bewator.se
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