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PROTECTIVE ALARM SYSTEM – is a system
designed to detect intrusion – unauthorized entry
– into a building or other area. Security alarms are
used in residential, commercial, industrial, and
military properties for protection against burglary
(theft) or property damage, as well as personal
protection against intruders.

PROTECTIVE LIGHTING – the idea that lighting can
provide improve protection for people and facilities
is as old as civilization. Protective lighting is the
single most cost-effective deterrent to crime
because it creates a psychological deterrent to the
intruders.

PROTECTIVE ORDER – a court order prohibiting the
defendant from communicating with the victim and
from entering the victim's residence, workplace,
school, or property and any place the victim
frequents.

PROTECTIVE SECURITY - those measures taken by
an installation or unit to protect itself against
sabotage, espionage or subversion and at the same
time provide freedom of action in order to provide
the installation of the unit with the necessary
flexibility to accomplish its mission.

PROVINCIAL PRISONERS – are persons sentenced
to suffer a term of imprisonment from 6 months
and 1 day to 3 years or a fine not more than 1,000
pesos, or both; or those detained therein waiting
for preliminary investigation of their cases
cognizable by the RTC.

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