Leveraging Digital Cameras in Combating theft within the University Environment

Abstract

This study examined the need for installation of digital cameras on every street of a university as a strategic measure to combat theft within university environments, using Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka as a case study. To explain this study and achieve these objectives, the researcher anchored this study on the technology acceptance model and adopted the descriptive survey design, respectively. The researcher determined the sample size of this study (381) using Meyer’s (1973) sample size determination formula while the samples were selected using the multi-stage sampling procedure. Using the multi-stage sampling procedure, the researchers randomly selected two (2) Faculties (Engineering and Arts) from which two (2) Departments (Civil engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Religion and Linguistics) were randomly selected for the study. For data collection, the researchers used a close-ended, valid, and reliable questionnaire to collect data and used descriptive statistics (frequency tables and simple percentages) to analyze the data. From this study, the researchers found among others, that the undergraduate students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, believe that digital cameras can help to combat theft within the school and its environs to a very high extent. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that the Federal Government should provide adequate security for Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka especially and other universities at large, for the students at the Universities not to feel abandoned and continue to live in fear.