Cultural Property Security

Cultural property security is of global importance, with tens of thousands of institutions internationally tasked with protecting and maintaining relics and artifacts of social, cultural, and historical significance. This volume offers powerful protection guidelines to security departments in charge of safeguarding popular historical sites, museums, and libraries and their historical artifacts. It identifies the threats against cultural properties and identifies the physical security measures and technology that can be used to protect such institutions. It also presents guidelines for establishing a protective service department for cultural properties, and describes proper arrest and post-arrest protocols.

Zusammenfassung
The protection and security of cultural properties is of primary concern to the thousands of federal, state, county, city, and private institutions entrusted with housing and displaying our national heritage and history of our society. Cultural property security is of global importance as well, with tens of thousands of institutions internationally

Inhalt

Importance of Culture Property Protection: Museums, Historic Sites, Archives, and Libraries. Security Threats to Museums, Historic Sites, Archives, and Libraries. Physical Security Protection for Museums, Historic Sites, Archives, and Libraries. Security Department Organization and Operation Chief Security Officer. Safety and Fire Protection. Emergency Responses. Appendix A: Cultural Property Resources. Appendix B: Cultural Property Physical Security Checklist. Appendix C: Cultural Property Key Control Program Checklist. Appendix D: Cultural Property Security Force Checklist.