cee cee- IAHSS ADVANCED EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST 2025
What do most security professionals agree that a primary function of the security department in a
healthcare setting should be?
Crime prevention.
Inherent Susceptibility:
A healthcare setting is a prime target for crime, because of how the business of healthcare works.
Open access:
Healthcare institutions traditionally provide an open access environment. This arrangement
accommodates the huge numbers of people who come onto the property on a daily basis. Once in a
healthcare facility, someone can easily pose as a visitor or contractor and go through many areas
without being questioned.
Presence of Valuable Item:
A healthcare facility is susceptible to crime due to the wide variety of portable, marketable items used
and stored there. More than 3000 items purchased by hospitals are usable in the home.
Distracted Patients and Staff:
,Criminals know that patients and family members often are less aware of their surroundings due to the
medical and emotional issues with which they are dealing. Criminals also see that the fast pace of the
healthcare environment makes workers less aware as well.
Whose personal safety is affected?
Patients: If patients are concerned for their personal well being or the safety of their personal property
their recovery may be affected. They may decide to get healthcare treatment elsewhere. Employees:
employees with personal safety concerns are less productive and less attentive to patients. Visitors:
Visitors concerned for their personal well being may encourage their loved ones to seek medical care
elsewhere.
Reducing the opportunities for Crime- The triangle of crime
1. The opportunity to commit crime.
2. The desire or motivation to commit the crime.
3. The ability to commit crime.
Of the 3 components, desire and ability are for the most part, beyond the control of the security
professional.
Reducing the opportunity for crime is the key to crime prevention.
Crime prevention
Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of some
action to remove or reduce it.
Preventing Crime through physical security planning
, To adequately protect a healthcare environment and prevent crime a comprehensive security plan must
be developed. Its scope must extend to the following:
1-Protecting Personnel,
2-Protecting Information,
3-Protecting the Physical Plant.
Layers of protection:
1. The perimeter barrier.
2. Barriers at the buildings' exteriors.
3. Interior controls.
Perimeters
The first line of defense is a perimeter barrier. A perimeter barrier defines the line or outside perimeter
of the site. It can be either structural or natural. An example of structural perimeter barrier is a chain-
link fence. An example of a natural barrier is a row of trees.
Exteriors
The second line of defense is at the buildings' exteriors: the top, sides and bottom of each building.
Doors, windows, skylights, and fire escapes provide this defense.
Interiors
The third line of defense is interior controls. Included are the internal operations of the protected site
and the security personnel who protect the environment. Many items comprise the interior control
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST 2025
What do most security professionals agree that a primary function of the security department in a
healthcare setting should be?
Crime prevention.
Inherent Susceptibility:
A healthcare setting is a prime target for crime, because of how the business of healthcare works.
Open access:
Healthcare institutions traditionally provide an open access environment. This arrangement
accommodates the huge numbers of people who come onto the property on a daily basis. Once in a
healthcare facility, someone can easily pose as a visitor or contractor and go through many areas
without being questioned.
Presence of Valuable Item:
A healthcare facility is susceptible to crime due to the wide variety of portable, marketable items used
and stored there. More than 3000 items purchased by hospitals are usable in the home.
Distracted Patients and Staff:
,Criminals know that patients and family members often are less aware of their surroundings due to the
medical and emotional issues with which they are dealing. Criminals also see that the fast pace of the
healthcare environment makes workers less aware as well.
Whose personal safety is affected?
Patients: If patients are concerned for their personal well being or the safety of their personal property
their recovery may be affected. They may decide to get healthcare treatment elsewhere. Employees:
employees with personal safety concerns are less productive and less attentive to patients. Visitors:
Visitors concerned for their personal well being may encourage their loved ones to seek medical care
elsewhere.
Reducing the opportunities for Crime- The triangle of crime
1. The opportunity to commit crime.
2. The desire or motivation to commit the crime.
3. The ability to commit crime.
Of the 3 components, desire and ability are for the most part, beyond the control of the security
professional.
Reducing the opportunity for crime is the key to crime prevention.
Crime prevention
Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of some
action to remove or reduce it.
Preventing Crime through physical security planning
, To adequately protect a healthcare environment and prevent crime a comprehensive security plan must
be developed. Its scope must extend to the following:
1-Protecting Personnel,
2-Protecting Information,
3-Protecting the Physical Plant.
Layers of protection:
1. The perimeter barrier.
2. Barriers at the buildings' exteriors.
3. Interior controls.
Perimeters
The first line of defense is a perimeter barrier. A perimeter barrier defines the line or outside perimeter
of the site. It can be either structural or natural. An example of structural perimeter barrier is a chain-
link fence. An example of a natural barrier is a row of trees.
Exteriors
The second line of defense is at the buildings' exteriors: the top, sides and bottom of each building.
Doors, windows, skylights, and fire escapes provide this defense.
Interiors
The third line of defense is interior controls. Included are the internal operations of the protected site
and the security personnel who protect the environment. Many items comprise the interior control
