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Every visitor entering Gulf Harbour is required to present his or her valid driver's license to be granted entry.  There are no exceptions.  Residents who may be coming home via taxi or limousine service will also be asked to present their driver's license as proof of identity.

As crime around us in Lee County has increased to record levels it had become apparent that incidents of prostitution, drug transactions, solicitation, and other threats to your security and privacy were increasing, even within the gates here in Gulf Harbour.

 

With the help of our gate system vendor, TEM Systems, Inc., the Lee County Sheriff’s department, and Wackenhut, researched how other Florida communities of our stature have bolstered their overall security and visitor access procedures in an attempt to prevent future incidents. The number one recommended measure being implemented state wide, and nationally, is to screen visitors by reviewing or scanning all visitor drivers’ licenses. It’s sad to say that in this day and age scanning driver’s licenses and using cameras and microphones has become so important. Remember the days when Gulf Harbour guards wore the helmets and waved to you when you entered the community even though they didn’t have clue who you were? Just like the days of getting through and airport without being scanned and interrogated, those days of the pith helmeted Gulf Harbour guards are gone. Unfortunately, even Gulf Harbour has daily security issues; these range from domestic disturbances, fraudulent vendors, solicitors, intoxication, prostitution, illegal aliens, vandalism, and theft, to name a few. Contrary to what many people believe, it is legal for us to require visitors to produce their driver’s license to enter the community. This policy, which is highly endorsed by the Lee County Sheriff, Mike Scott, is legal because Gulf Harbour is a private community. Since it was first implemented on January 1st, almost daily the drivers’ license scanning proves how valuable and effective it is. In the first

month the license scanning system was implemented, at least one, possibly two, drug dealers had to go out of business in Gulf Harbour. Commercial solicitation by people posing as friends of residents stopped. Several illegal aliens on resident’s permanent lists were stopped without drivers licenses. Unbelievably, several taxi cab drivers, pizza delivery drivers, and even limousine drivers, are working without valid driver’s licenses (and

most likely have no insurance) and have been stopped by this new procedure. It is clear that you are safer and less likely to be injured by and un-licensed or uninsured driver in Gulf Harbour now, than you were before this system was put in to action. Our system does not compromise anyone’s personal identity or credit information. Only the driver’s name and drivers license number is recorded, and it is only stored in our computer for the length of the pass that is issued to them. We do NOT keep or store personal information in our files. Other nearby communities, The Landing’s, Pelican Sound, Heritage Palms, and others near Sarasota and Naples have heard about our new procedures and are calling us for demonstrations because their Board’s of Directors want to tell their residents they are just as diligent as Gulf Harbour at protecting their residents and their property values.

 

 
       
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