Method for determining a crime deterent factor

A method for determining a crime deterrent factor of a security system or security equipment, the method comprising:

• determining a value for a traceability factor, a robustness factor, an analytics factor, a prosecutions factor and a publicity factor based on attributes of a particular security system or security equipment;
• wherein the value for each of the factors is determined by comparing the attributes of the particular security system or security equipment against a scale of predetermined attributes each of which have been assigned a value;
• and
• wherein the relationship of each of the factors is defined as follows:
• (Tr+Ap)×P=D
• or
• (Tr×Ap)×P=D
• or
• ((T ×r)×(A×p))×P=D
• wherein,
• T=traceability value
• r=robustness value
• A=Analytics value
• p=prosecutions value
• P=publicity value
• D=crime deterrent value

A computer readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for execution by a processor in a computing device causing said computer device to:

• determine a value for a traceability factor, a robustness factor, an analytics factor, a prosecutions factor and a publicity factor based on attributes of a particular security system or security equipment,
• wherein the value for each of the factors is determined by comparing the attributes of the particular security system or security equipment against a scale of predetermined attributes each of which have been assigned a value;
• (i) factoring the traceability value by the robustness value;
• (ii) factoring the analytics value by the prosecution value;
• (iii) combining the values obtained by steps (i) and (ii) by either addition or multiplication;
• and
• (iv) multiplying the value of step (iii) by the publicity value.