Antony Holmes
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October 11:10
Time and motion studies
Campus security is often lambasted for being somewhat incompetent and unhelpful with numerous disgruntled students recounting anecdotes of their encounters with the "boys in blue". A load of hot air and opinion wheezing from the blogs is by no means an objective way of concluding how good or bad security are however. To this end I set about conducting a sophisticated time and motion study to provide more quantitative data to help answer this conundrum.Security are particularly fond of taking bikes that have been left idle which they presume are no longer in use (for what nefarious purpose I'm not quite sure). But just how efficient are they at spotting suspect bikes? Well, to put your minds at rest, at great personal expense and inconvenience I locked a bike up in one of the car parks and promptly left it to see what happened...
Well, as you might have guessed, nothing gets past the keen eyes of our dedicated security experts because just two and half years after leaving the bike to rot a removal notice was placed on the handlebars and just a further five weeks after that the bike was removed. Wow, that's fast you might say but I still think there is room for a little improvement.
The following graph summarises my findings:
Next week I'm going to demolish one of the accommodation blocks to see how long it takes for security to notice that one of our residences is missing.
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