This Wednesday, June 29, from 1-2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the Installation Quality (IQ) program will sponsor a Law Enforcement Outreach Webinar. Why should you sign in? If you read this blog regularly, you likely own or work for a company in the electronic...
With ESX recently completed in Charlotte, it’s good to look back on some of those recognized, including Jay Hauhn of ADT Security Services. We honored Jay with the Bill Moody Award for the critical work he’s done for SIAC over the years. As a non-profit entity serving...
There’s a lot written in business books about setting goals, and writing them down to make them concrete. It’s a good concept, and one that successful people tout in books and presentations to business leaders. An overlooked facet of setting goals is: What timeframe...
Security Sales and Integration (SSI) magazine is publishing a “2011 Law Enforcement and Alarm Relationship Study” in an upcoming issue. Previous studies on these issues have yielded valuable information on law enforcement’s perspective concerning the electronic...
As the cliché goes, “Politics are local.” Why should our industry be any different? The electronic security industry is made up of a lot of smaller companies. Well over half of our business is done by companies with less than 25 employees. That means many firms...
Based on the hard work of Glen Mowrey and others, we’re hopeful that in South Carolina we’ll be able to get legislation introduced and supported in the state that would mandate two-call verification. Enhanced Call Verification or ECV, has been adopted in many other...
Faking fire alarms is bad. Those high school kids thinking it’s a funny prank to yank the lever so the fire department is signaled, sirens screaming, are doing everyone a disservice. We know that too many alarms is a response issue for police departments across the...
It may sound odd or counter-intuitive, but sometimes it’s productive to not ask for full payment. Cities are finding this out. Recently, in Venice, California, the city has decided to allow citizens amnesty on certain fines and penalties. What they’ve decided is that...
Former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle is currently running for Mayor of the city. For those of you who’ve followed the debate over Verified Response (VR – where break-ins must be verified before police will respond to the premises), Kunkle was chief when the Dallas...
This blog serves a good purpose in reinforcing messages related to alarm response issues across the country. Readers are members of the security industry, and you may get information from a number of sources regarding technology, actions taken by police departments or...