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Security Patrol Book 2028

A dated 2028 patrol book, a leap year, with one page for every day and a four-column log for keys and fobs.

Specification

Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 420
Leaves: 210
Sheets: 105
Signatures: 21 × 20pp
Spine: 24.02 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: lined
Ruling pitch: 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
Rows per page: 24
Year: 2028

Nobody asks to see a patrol book on a quiet night. They ask for it the morning after something happened at an hour nobody can quite place, and if you cannot point to a written round at 2am, a memory is all you have to hand over. This book gives every day of 2028 its own page for exactly that: somewhere to write the round down while it is still fresh.

Behind the daily pages sits a shorter Keys and access log: Key / fob, Issued to, Out, In. Four columns, for the master key a relieving guard needs to find fast, and the fob that has to come back before the shift that issued it goes home.

The daily pages run from the first of January through the thirty-first of December 2028, a leap year, which is why this edition carries one more daily page than the 2027 one does.

What is inside

Patrol: 366pp; One page a day, so a round can be written down while it is still fresh.
Keys and access: 4pp; Four columns for the key or fob a relieving guard has to find fast.
Months: 12pp; One page a month, ahead of the daily rounds.
Notes: 26pp; College-ruled, for an incident report a daily page has no room for.
Year: 1pp; One page for the year before the first round is walked.
Reference: 11pp; Conversion tables computed from definitions, emergency numbers checked against two independent sources, and the personal page every copy opens with.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

Real pages

Five pages from the Security Patrol Book 2028 laid out as cards: a daily patrol page, a Keys and access page, a month page, a notes page, and the pen test page. — Five pages taken straight from the print file: a daily patrol page, the Keys and access log, a month page, a college-ruled notes page, and the pen-test leaf. The daily page is the product. A round that was never written down cannot be produced the morning somebody asks for it, however certain the guard who walked it is.

Specification card listing the Security Patrol Book 2028 contents: daily pages, Keys and access pages, notes pages, 420 pages total, A5 trim, twenty-one signatures of twenty. — Three hundred sixty-six daily pages, one for every day of 2028, a leap year. Four Keys and access pages behind a divider, ruled into four columns: Key / fob, Issued to, Out, In. Twelve month pages, one year page, and twenty-six college-ruled notes pages for an incident a daily page has no room for. Eleven pages of reference material, including conversion tables computed from definitions and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources. 420 pages total, A5, twenty-one signatures of twenty.

Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker

Books that sit alongside it

Security Patrol Book 2027Another year2028 to 2027
Shift Handover Log 2027Works alongsideshares record-keeping
Shift Handover Log 2028Works alongsideshares record-keeping

Questions

What are the four columns in the Keys and access log?

Key / fob, Issued to, Out, In. Four pages of it, for whatever a master key or fob needs tracked separately from the daily rounds.

How big is it?

A5, 148 x 210 mm, 420 pages, 24.02 mm across the spine.

Is it dated?

Yes. This edition covers January to December 2028, a leap year, three hundred sixty-six daily pages.

Does the daily page tell me how often to walk a round?

No. That is set by the site's own procedure, and it is not this book's place to guess it. Each day gets one ruled page to write the round down once it is walked.