A fundamental question electronic security companies should continually ask themselves is the following: “What are we doing to reduce calls for dispatch?” It makes business sense, and because it makes you more efficient operationally, you can use this to attract new...
Your SIAC dollars are hard at work. Day after day, week after week, we’re in the trenches, communicating solutions and maintaining law enforcement relationships. Just recently, activity in Tucson, AZ, took up a large part of our agenda the past 30 days. Misinformation...
The more we catch bad guys, the less we’ll hear about the need for dispatch reduction. It sounds kind of odd, doesn’t it? But it makes sense. If criminals are caught (either during or after the act), communities will be safer, police happier and we’ll hear less about...
SIAC sends its thanks to all our weekly faithful readers of this blog. When we are out and about at alarm management industry functions, people come up to us and let us know they appreciate the issues we raise in this forum. Most recently, several members from the...
Another community in Georgia – Fayetteville – is implementing an abbreviated version of the model ordinance. It’s one worked to put together with the Georgia Chiefs of Police (GACP), and has proven successful elsewhere in the state. SIAC’s Glen Mowrey has been...
One of the questions SIAC has to ask itself as an organization is whether we make things more complicated than they should be. Implicit in this question is: How do we best do our job for the electronic security industry? Part of the answer to that lies in supplying...
Here at SIAC, we consistently tout the benefits of electronic security companies knowing what is going on in their community, and getting involved with elected officials and police departments. We advance our presence, build good relationships and enhance public...
We went to thank the Electronic Security Association (ESA) for selecting one of our blogs as a “Top Ten” story of 2011 in their online newsletter, the “ESA Integrator.” It’s an honor to be selected. We’re pleased that the issues we cover have a wide application in the...
We’re entering the seventh year for the Police Dispatch Quality (PDQ) award. Wow! It seems like yesterday that we started on this journey, working with co-sponsors Honeywell and Security Sales and Integration magazine, along with the Installation Quality (IQ) program...
We’d love to able to say we’re starting 2012 on an upswing, that every community in America is safe, and all alarm systems are being managed effectively. But as reality would have it, that’s not the case. As seems to happen during the holiday season more than...