Control designed to mitigate risks of bad things happening

a) It is important to understand that security and safety issues have always been a threat for school campuses, and threat has even got worse with the passage of time. There was a time when technology had not taken so much space in our lives, so different tasks were difficult to complete. But now with the essence of technology, nothing is difficult. CCTV cameras are one of the best technology for safety and security purposes. It keeps a constant eye on public so that their activities and actions can be noticed and if anyone is having an intention to do something wrong, or if any incident happens unluckily, then CCTV cameras can be helpful in both cases. The above picture is showing the presence of CCTV cameras installed at different parts of a building which means that every side and corner around the building is on surveillance so that any wrong action or activity can be captured, and risk is mitigated before happening anything. These CCTV cameras are great to keep an eye for the security and safety of the campus, and if any bad event is noticed, it is immediately shared with the police.

b)

(i) The main objective of the control activity is to keep an eye on the surroundings of the campus building, both from inside or outside. The primary goal is to ensure that any people willing to do any crime must know that they are being watched by these CCTV cameras.

(ii) It is important to understand that action taken afterwards an incident happened is not worth; rather it is vital to deter crime, before its happening. So, any kind of crime can be spotted by these CCTV cameras and the surveillance team can immediately contact with the law enforcement authorities to take prompt action. For instance, if a student is seen on CCTV camera that he has entered the campus main gate having a gun in his hand, then the surveillance team should contact police and security to find that guy as soon as possible.

(iii) The control activity is properly maintained like there are a surveillance and maintenance room, where screens are installed for each security camera. Two persons are on shift for the monitoring purpose, so they monitor the footage of these CCTV cameras so that they can deter crime or keeps an eye on anything wrong being happened. The daily footage of all CCTV cameras is recorded in a computer, and footage is saved for 1 year's time. After one year, the old footage is deleted, and new footage is saved.

(iv) First of all, I would like to check the working condition of all CCTV cameras, whether all of them are working or not. If cameras are not properly working, then there is no benefit to installing such a security system. Moreover, I would ask someone to do any wrong action or activity to check the efficacy of the monitoring team, which is monitoring these CCTV cameras 24/7. Such methods will allow me to measure the efficiency and efficacy of the CCTV security system

2. Control designed to mitigate risks of missing opportunities

a) The control design mentioned in this picture is indicating a positive and good gesture from the campus, as it shows a sign for physically disabled persons to park their vehicles, bikes or wheelchairs, etc. So, this control is there to help in happening something good for the people with disability.

b)

(i) The major objective of this control is to help people with physical disabilities to get parking at priority. A normal person can wait for his turn or look around for suitable parking, but a disabled person cannot do these things. So, a parking facility has been dedicated to them.

(ii)  The risk that the control activity is designed to mitigate is the provision of the facility, to the physically & mentally challenged people, for developing and building the confidence among them. On campus, the physically & mentally disabled people are if treated unequal, there are the chances that they loss hope and the self-belief for doing something in life. The risks associated with this control activity may include losing the hope, confidence and self-trust for not having the equal opportunities like the normal people do have for on campus activities. This is the reason for initiating the control activity.

(iii) The control activity operates with proper rules and regulations. It is quite clear that when a sign mentioned in the picture is present at any spot on the campus, and then it means that disabled persons will be dealt with priority. Even the campus has made wheelchair friendly main entrance as well as classroom entrance so that disabled people can roam around like other normal students in the campus.

(iv) If I would be an internal auditor, then I would like to check this control design by starting from the main gate. If the main entrance of the campus has any separate entry for disabled persons so that they can easily come in. Then I would also observe the parking lot specified for the disabled person, whether everyone is following the rule or not