DALLAS -- In a unanimous vote, the Dallas City Council has passed an ordinance requiring the approximately 950 convenience stores in Dallas to enhance their safety programs, reported The Dallas Morning News. The ordinance, to be enacted over the next 18 months, includes requirements that stores register with the city, get high resolution cameras and install drop safes, among other requirements.
Mayor Tom Leppert earlier this year assigned a task force just to deal with the issue of c-store violence and crime. "It just makes it a lot less attractive for criminals to be there," he told NBC5[image-nocss] -TV.
Requirements include:
Creating a registration program for c-stores. Surveillance camera systems—at least two color, high-resolutionsurveillance cameras. Video storage and recording systems. Alarm systems—silent panic or holdup alarm system. Drop safes and notice posted. Security signs. Height markers. Store visibility—sales transaction areas must have unobstructed sight
lines through windows and doors. Safety training programs. Trespass affidavits to allow police to deal with people illegally on the
premises.
Click hereto view the Convenience Store Task Force Recommendations report.
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