Most crimes in residential communities/apartment complexes (70-80%) remain unreported as residents are extremely sensitive to publicizing vulnerabilities in their own apartment complex. Such negative publicity would impact property value, rentals, etc.
However, today crime inside Apartment Complexes is on the rise and it is important to bring to light criminal activities and other instances of security lapses in Gated Communities, so that other communities across India and across the globe become cognizant of possible threats and can take preventive steps.
Through this blog, we aim to spread awareness by highlighting security related incidents inside complexes and it’s our hope that these cases would help you design better security processes and help you put proper preventive measures in place, in your community.
At the same time we do want to protect the privacy concerns of the gated communities where security related incidents took place, hence we will not name the gated communities unless they have already been published in public media.
An unforeseen security lapses might be an one off rare happening in your community, but once it happens, to whom it happens, it leaves a mark, which one might have to carry throughout their life!
This blog is a small attempt to spread awareness, to help build secure and peaceful neighborhoods.