Public Safety Updates

• Inside one state’s effort to digitize 911 to improve public safety
  11.20.24 – Route Fifty – In Arizona, officials hope next generation 911 capabilities will help improve the state’s public safety response and supplement the work of understaffed dispatcher teams. A year into its implementation of next generation 911, Arizona officials see promising improvements for public safety responses.

Featured Articles

• Skilled burglars are targeting pro athletes’ homes, leagues warn. Here’s what we know
  11.22.24 – CNN – At least three professional sports leagues warned their teams this week that organized and skilled groups are targeting the homes of athletes for break-ins,…
• NFPA Urges Extra Cooking Fire Caution When Preparing Your Annual Thanksgiving Feast
  11.18.24 – SSI Staff – Between 2018 and 2022, there was an annual average of three and half times more cooking fires on Thanksgiving Day than other days.
• Editor’s Note: What’s Old is New and Innovative Again?
  11.19.24 – SIW – Paul Rothman – A highly marketed offering of a 50-year-old alarm technology is likely to generate newfound interest among uninformed residential alarm customers

Business

• Background Checks for Security Businesses
  11.18.24 – SIW – Kenneth Coats – How employers can spot the red flags that applications and interviews can’t
• Legal Briefing: Can a Seller Boost Their Multiple by Financing the Deal?
  11.18.24 – Ken Kirschenbaum – Buyers come in a few varieties: those who have the money, those who use other people’s money and those who borrow the money.
• Modern Selling: Back to Basics
  11.19.24 – SIW – Chris Peterson – Four sales staples that remain relevant…with some adjustments to today’s marketplace
• Recruiting Roadmap: Life and Hiring During the Holidays
  11.19.24 – SIW – Ryan Joseph – 5 ways to balance both while still meeting your goals
• Labor Dept. overtime rule deemed an overreach
  11.15.24 – The National Law Review/Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart – A federal judge in Texas has rejected the Labor Department’s April 2024 rule raising salary thresholds for the white-collar overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act, citing that the changes exceeded the agency’s authority.
• New Interface Systems Report Reveals Top Security Risks for U.S. Retail Chains
  11.20.24 – SSI Staff – Video verification and voice-down commands demonstrate significant impact in reducing retail security incidents and enhancing store safety.
• Securing Retail Assets During the Holiday Season with Advanced Security Systems
  11.20.24 – Yaniv Amir – Security integrators must recommend retail clients use integrated security systems with real-time interventions and proactive deterrence.
• Tech additions retailers use to target loss prevention
  11.18.24 – CSCMP Supply Chain Xchange – Retailers are planning to invest in technology tools to address theft and loss, with 78% of them focusing on tech solutions for both frontline workers and operational oversight. Current usage of AI-based prescriptive analytics for loss prevention is at 38%, but 50% of retailers plan to adopt it within the next one to three years. Other planned investments include self-checkout cameras, computer vision and RFID technologies.

Crime

• CA: Burglars Use Drones to Scout Luxury Homes Before Break-ins …
  11.22.24 – Newsbreak – A series of sophisticated burglaries in the Westridge neighborhood of Santa Clarita Valley has revealed criminals using drones for …
• CO: Police look for burglar in panda costume, others involved in Superior gas station thefts
  11.19.24 – 9News – The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday asked for the public’s help identifying burglars, including one in a panda costume, involved in two smash-and-grab thefts at a gas station in Superior.
• CO: Surveillance Video: Burglars ransack Colorado jewelry store
  11.24.24 – 9News – Just before 5 a.m. on Friday, burglars ransacked the Joyeria El Ruby store in Thornton. This past summer, robbers hit the business’ location in northwest…
• IL: Lake County Sheriff’s deputies arrest man in suburban Chicago gaming café burglary
  11.24.24 – CBS News – Lake County Sheriff’s detectives responded to a burglary alarm at the café in the 34500 block of Route 45 in Third Lake, Illinois.
• OK: Oklahoma City Police investigating burglary at cell phone …
  11.20.24 – KFOR – In a video released by police, the man can be seen taking items off of a shelf at the store and leaving. OKCPD investigates burglary at cell …
• TN: Burglars cut hole into business causing about $50,000 in damage
  11.18.24 – Memphis, Tenn. (WMC) – Two men were caught on camera breaking into a business on Friday. Memphis Police were called to a burglary on East Shelby Dive at Alex’s Discount Liquor around 5 a.m.
• TX: Burglary alarm leads to multiple arrests in West University …
  11.18.24 – CW39 Houston – The driver, Derramy Foster, was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana. Further investigation using virtual gate cameras revealed that …

NESA is a federation of state associations established to serve and promote the electronic systems industry at the direction of, and through its affiliated state associations. Six state associations are part of NESA – Arkansas Security Alarm Association (ASAA), Kansas Electronic Security Association (KESA), Louisiana Life Safety & Security Association (LLSSA), Maryland Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (MDBFAA), Oklahoma Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (OKBFAA) and Texas Burglar & Fire Alarm Association (TBFAA). For more info visit www.nesaus.org.