When financial institutions decide to make branches more secure, the focus is always on cameras, dye packs and other ways to “catch the bad guys next time.” While we support these improvements, our Robbery Deterrent Design Program looks at this problem differently. We design to deter criminals so there isn’t a next time. 

Through work with current and retired FBI agents, local jurisdictions, and members of the security industry, we have developed a method of designing branch facilities that makes them more difficult to rob, while still leaving them attractive to those who do business there.