Safes – bank protection – or a related device – Bank protection devices – Trapping mechanisms
Patent
1995-10-24
1997-12-02
Gall, Lloyd A.
Safes, bank protection, or a related device
Bank protection devices
Trapping mechanisms
109 20, 109 25, 109 32, E05G 502
Patent
active
056924461
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a method and an arrangement of equipment for the protection of buildings and people from acts of violence.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The most similar existing methods for the continuous, routine monitoring of people and baggage are practiced, for example, at airports. The people are checked by means of hand-held metal detectors or by walking through a frame with the same action. The baggage contents are visualized by radiographic methods described in principle in U.S. Pat. No. 4 799 247. Monitoring methods of this kind, however, in principle have the disadvantage that a potential perpetrator is aware that they exist and knows the details of their nature, site and comprehensiveness. Therefore he can collaborate with third parties to position the weaponry in such a way that it can be retrieved unnoticed after he has been monitored.
A method by which a person carrying a concealed metal object can be detected and immediately thereafter detained by locking a revolving door in position has been described in OS 29 03 114. This method in principle has the disadvantage that the metal object is not identified with regard to how dangerous it might be, so that false outcomes are common; that is, people with large enough metal objects are detained even though they are harmless.
The problem is thus to provide a method in which, by several successive stages of purposeful measures, first the presence of a potentially dangerous object is detected, then this object is analyzed and if it is dangerous is so identified, the face of the person involved is documented before anything further is done, and the person is detained by surprise with no chance to resist and no danger to third parties. It is desirable to separate the sites of identification and of detention far enough in space that forewarning effects are minimized. This requires that the persons be labeled without their noticing and detained on the basis of this labeling, i.e. not necessarily on the basis of a physical measurement signal. In the concept of the method it is assumed that individuals with violent intent have previously reconnoitred the localities as harmless visitors.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method, and to the arrangement of equipment necessary for the implementation thereof, for identifying persons intending violence as dangerous, by way of the weapons they are carrying, as soon as they enter buildings and for detaining them in such a way that they have no opportunity to secure their release by extortion, e.g. by taking hostages. The determination that one or more weapons is or are being brought into the building, the identification of the weaponry and the labeling of the armed persons to target them for detention all occur undetectably; therefor the potential perpetrator can be detained by surprise. The invention is meant to be used primarily in cases such that protection is required for buildings and the people therein but visible check-points are unsuitable because of their forewarning effect, or in which potential perpetrators do not expect such controls, at least not in the outermost entrance region.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating a building interior protected in accordance with the present invention from people intending acts of violence;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating X-ray machinery for identifying metal objects; and
FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating movable X-ray machinery for identifying metal objects.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The method in accordance with the invention provides for the following procedures: means are provided to cause entering individuals to proceed singly, so that at least one first sensor/metal-detector 1 can be used to determine whether relatively large metal objects are being brought in by a given individual. This test is performed in real time, and a positive result causes a signal to be sent to the security staff in the guard room 5. The metal detector 1 is extremely sensitive and is capable of identif
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Becker Lothar
Zorn Jurgen
Gall Lloyd A.
Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
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