Public Safety Updates
- False Alarm Calls From Robot Taxis Put Strain on California …
2.2.23 – Innovation Origins – This surge in false alarm calls to 911, caused by robot taxis from companies such as Waymo and GM Cruise, is putting a strain on resources …
Featured Articles
- Is There Liability from In-Home Security Monitoring?
2.2.23 – SSI – Legal expert Ken Kirschenbaum is not prepared to say in-home central station monitoring is deceptive or a dereliction of duty. - TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard Receives ANSI Accreditation
1.31.23 – SSI – Scott Goldfine -Initiated in 2020, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems. - TMA seeks volunteers for new standard
2.2.23 – SIW – This standard will develop an efficient means for monitoring centers to provide responding authorities with information that assists with an efficient and safe response to active threat incidents.
Business Tips
- SimpliSafe piloting 24/7 live guard protection to qualifying …
2.3.23 – SIW – Home security system maker SimpliSafe announced that qualifying customers will have the opportunity to participate in the Beta test of 24/7 … - NSCA outlook predicts 2% decline in U.S. construction
2.3.23 – Total U.S. engineering and construction spending is forecast to end 2022 up 8% (the same as 2020 and 2021), led primarily by residential. For 2023, however, FMI forecasts a 2% decline in engineering and construction spending levels compared to 2022. - Physical security market looking strong into 2027
2.3.23 – SIW – Memoori estimates that between 2022 and 2027 the market will rise from $42.3 billion to reach $57.8 billion at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.45%.
Fire & EMS News
- VA: Fire alarms didn’t go off during Saturday’s high-rise apartment …
1.30.23 – ALX Now – The Alexandria Fire Department confirmed that fire alarms in a high-rise West End apartment building didn’t go off during a two-alarm blaze …
Crime News
- CA: California burglar falls into small pond before …
2.2.23 – Fox News – California burglar falls into small pond before burglarizing home, ringing doorbell on way out. One of the thieves was captured on camera … - CA: Deputies find burglary suspect inside Seoul Garden Korean …
1.2.23 – VVNG – A 27-year-old Hesperia man was arrested after police responded to a commercial burglary at Seoul Garden Korean BBQ and found … - CA: POLICE BEAT – Attempted Pasha break-in foiled
1.2.23 – Easy Reader – Pasha was the target of a “smash and grab” robbery last June 24 when 11 men, some armed, entered the store early on a Friday evening and left … - CA: Smash-and-grab burglars caught on video while hitting small …
2.1.23 – ABC7 – Burglars were seen on surveillance video while robbing several businesses at Brookside Plaza, a Redlands shopping center that has recently been … - CA: Thief gets away with thousands of dollars from Walnut Creek …
1.3.23 – KRON – Walnut Creek, Calif. – A thief breaks through a lockbox to enter a Walnut Creek plant nursery and gets away with thousands of dollars … - CT: Trespasser at Hamden school prompts extra police presence
1.31.23 – FOX 61 – While at the school, the custodian was confronted by a trespasser, who robbed and assaulted the custodian, police said. Hamden, Conn. – There is an extra police presence at Wintergreen School in Hamden after someone illegally entered the building, assaulted, and robbed the school custodian. - FL: Gainesville man arrested for burglary of Harbor Cove clubhouse
2.5.23 – Alachua Chronicle – Gainesville, Fla. – Maurice James Singleton, 32, was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with burglary of the Harbor Cove clubhouse … - IL: Home Burglar Cuts Cables, Still Sets Off Alarm: Blotter
2.1.23 – Patch – Nothing appeared to have been disturbed inside, although police found several wires had been cut on a cable box at the side of the home. Around … - LA: Man pleads guilty to breaking into elderly Vivian man’s home
2.1.23 – KSLA – 31, William Carl Stanfield, 25, pleaded guilty to an aggravated burglary in a break-in of an elderly Vivian man’s home. - LA: St. Rose man arrested for burglarizing Kenner business
2.2.23 – L’Observateur – Officers complied with the subjects wishes and after a foot pursuit, the suspect surrendered several blocks away and was identified as Elliot … - MA: Longmeadow police release photos of Berkshire Bank …
1.30.23 – Mass Live – A male and an unidentified accomplice reportedly robbed the bank at 138 Longmeadow St. and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, … - MD: GameStop burglary suspect busted by police after injuring self …
1.31.23 – WMAR – Police busted an alleged burglar in Laurel after he injured himself during a break-in. It happened around 3:30am Tuesday when an alarm rang … - ME: Portland man accused of stealing safe from local business …
1.31.23 – WGME – Call was arrested, but the accomplice ran away. Police charged Call with burglary, theft by unauthorized taking, refusing to submit to arrest … - MI: Troy pharmacy break-in reported – The Oakland Press
2.3.23 – Oakland Press – Prescription drugs were stolen during a break-in at a Troy pharmacy reported recently, police said. According to the Troy Police Department, … - NJ: Sparta Police: Sparta Pharmacy Robbed in Early Morning Hours
2.4.23 – Newsbreak – Sparta, NJ – Drugs were stolen from Sparta Pharmacy on January 30 after two people broke in by smashing the glass front door. Around 3 a.m. … - NY: Local business owner speaks out after being struck by …
2.3.23 – WHEC – Ronnie McClive, co-owner of Petit Poutinerie and the Poutin Trucks, says thieves broke into her business by crashing a car through the front … - NY: Police searching for suspect following robbery at Adirondack …
2.4.23 – WKTV – Utica police are searching for a suspect who allegedly robbed the Adirondack Bank on Genesee Street in downtown Utica Friday morning. Police say … - OH: Police hold 2 at gunpoint for suspected break in at Harrison …
2.5.23 – WHIO – Harrison Township – Harrison Township Police held two people at gunpoint while responding to a security alarm early Sunday morning. - PA: Springfield police blotter: Aston man found breaking into …
1.31.23 – Delco Times – An alarm and quick police action resulted in the arrest of an Aston man on charges of breaking into a Springfield business early Monday. - TX: Deputies investigating burglary at Angelina Grocery
1.30.23 – KJAS – The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a burglary at Angelina Grocery, on Highway 63 West. - WI: Madison police investigating robbery of North Side credit union
1.30.23 – Wisconsin State Journal – Shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday, police were sent to the UW Credit Union, 1422 Northport Drive, on an alarm and then were notified it was a …
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