All shipments transported by STOLICA are monitored throughout the entire transfer. The system consists of over 200 digital cameras, which allow for checking every stage of the warehouse shipment cycle, both at the central sorting facility in Łazy near Warsaw and at STOLICA’s branch warehouses in other cities. In Łazy alone, where over 100 cameras are installed, approximately 40,000 packages and shipments are sorted daily between 7:00 PM and 2:30 AM. Individual security and protection measures must complement each other and form a tight security system, i.e., one in which threat neutralization measures are highly resistant to the actions of criminals. No state-of-the-art alarm system will be effective without appropriate mechanical security and timely intervention. Each element of the security system (architectural-construction, mechanical, electronic, physical, and legal) is equally important and none can be omitted, noted K. Łazor. STOLICA’s distribution and sorting facilities are located in areas with the lowest possible crime rate, on fenced, well-lit, and guarded premises. An important element for buildings and warehouses is their construction, with doors and windows secured by grilles or anti-burglary shutters, and certified locks and padlocks. The effectiveness of the indicated mechanical security is also determined by the procedure related to the storage and issuance of keys (protection and access by unauthorized persons).
All company facilities are also secured with alarm systems connected to a monitoring station and industrial television systems (integrated with the shipment scanning system at the central sorting facility). Every process related to the handling of shipments at the central sorting facility is supervised by video cameras (from the moment the shipment is received until it is released from the warehouse), connected to the scanning system; thanks to this, the description of the scanned shipment and all data associated with it are automatically linked to the image from the camera observing the given process. In K. Łazor’s opinion, no industrial television system monitoring processes is capable of identifying details related to a shipment. In the courier industry, with tens of thousands of shipments, effective monitoring becomes practically impossible. Let us also remember that for a video camera, a shipment is just a package, a cardboard box without identifying features. In the case of a standard CCTV system, we can only observe whether criminal events are occurring in the monitored areas and whether established procedures are being violated.