Countries seeking to attract overseas investment and to ensure the growth and development of their domestic business communities have little option but to factor reliable security arrangements into their business planning, the head of one of New Jersey’s leading electronic security firms told Stabroek Business recently.
“Good security has become an integral part of business. If business is to flourish anywhere investors and businessmen need to feel secure. Otherwise it really makes no sense opening for business,” President of the New Jersey-based ADM Fusion Electronic Systems Adam Weintraub told Stabroek Business earlier this week.
Weintraub, who left Guyana on Tuesday after a three-day fact-finding visit, told Stabroek Business that the outcomes of meetings with public and private sector officials during his visit here had persuaded him that his company could work with Guyana to help create a more informed security culture. “Our primary focus is on enhancing the level of asset protection in a manner that brings a greater level of comfort to the owners of those assets, whether it be the state, the business community or individuals. That way we create a more comfortable environment within which the society as a whole can function,” Weintraub said.
ADM Fusion Electronic Systems is the fourth largest Audio/Video service provider in New Jersey. The company serves various corporate clients in New York including Polo Ralph Lauren, Armani Stores, Petco Stores, Dominoes Plazas and Ruby Tuesday Restaurants.
Weintraub told Stabroek Business that following his visit here Fusion Electronic Security was contemplating the setting up an AV/CCTV Training Facility here. “We envisage a totally Guyanese-staffed facility that will train and employ local technicians for installation and servicing of ADM products in Guyana. We are interested in working with businesses across the spectrum, including major corporations, banks and state facilities requiring security expertise including electronic surveillance, recording and playback capacity,” Weintraub said.
ADM Fusion Electronic Security’s services include the design and installation of surveillance systems for public and private sector application including vandal-proof CCTV cameras, high-capacity digital video recorders, and software designed for remote monitoring including viewing of covered areas on hand-held devices, door access control mechanisms and the installation and servicing of video conference systems.
And according to Weintraub, his company’s interest in Guyana goes beyond seeking the country as simply a market for electronic surveillance equipment. “We are interested in a genuine, long-term investment here, an arrangement that enables us to establish a local company that can serve the sector in a number of ways including training, advice on equipment acquisition as well as the servicing of security-related contracts.”
Weintraub told Stabroek Business that public and private sector officials whom he had met during his visit here had all expressed an awareness of the importance of good security. “Everyone in the state and business sectors with whom I met told me that they are aware of the need for more security and good security. Fusion Electronic Security is interested in becoming a part of addressing the challenge of further heightening security consciousness and improving security in Guyana. We intend to prepare a sound business plan for working with Guyana,” Weintraub said.
Meanwhile, Weintraub told Stabroek Business that contrary to what some proponents of electronic security appear to believe the profusion of electronic security is not intended to render the traditional security guard redundant. “Apart from the fact that the guard service provides valuable employment for people in countries like Guyana the fact is that if many of these electronic security systems are to be efficient they need to be monitored. It really is a question of training people to monitor these systems so that they can serve the purposes for which they are installed,” Weintraub said.
