In the past, many business owners invested in security people to safeguard their organizations. Many organizations invested vast amounts of money in paying the security personnel. Though the security people were effective, better security systems such as the video surveillance systems have come up. These surveillance systems are a great asset for any organization seeking to maintain high security levels. The systems help in preventing and detecting crime and they may also help in identifying criminals. The video surveillance systems act as deterrents to criminals. Basically, any person would think twice before conducting a crime in an area fitted with a video surveillance system. Usually, the surveillance systems may capture criminal activities on film. For instance, if a robbery takes place in an organization fitted with a video surveillance system, all the actions are recorded on film. This makes it very easy for the police or other law enforcement agencies to identify the criminals. It is easy to identify the criminal once he/she is captured on film while performing the criminal activity. Basically, video surveillance systems may be dated many years back. In the United States of America for instance, the first surveillance systems to be installed were the CCTV (closed circuit television) surveillance systems. These systems had to be watched by people during the entire time that they were running. The video cassette recorders further improved the efficiency of surveillance systems since crimes could be recorded on tapes; the tapes would then be used as evidence. It was mainly in the 1980s that the video surveillance systems started to be widely used in many business organizations and other public areas. Many businesses such as banks and even shopping malls embraced this technology and started using the surveillance systems to deter theft and also...