http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2007/02/vpd_release_pat.html A blog to help keep you up to date on home & community security issues on Vancouver's Westside as well as the continuing development and growth of Provident Security Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2007/02/vpd_release_pat.html/comment-page-1/#comment-1507 Community Security : The Provident Blog » NightOwl Remote Video Catches Two Burglars in the Act… Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:12:44 +0000 http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2007/02/vpd_release_pat.html#comment-1507 [...] The video quality is intentionally low-resolution (read: crappy) because it has been optimized to provide quick detection and to be able to be transmitted to us very quickly. When we receive a NightOwl video alarm in our Kerrisdale Operations Centre, all we need to determine is whether the cause of the alarm is a human or not. If we see anything suspicious, we can call the Police and report a verified crime in progress… which gets a very quick response (as opposed to a regular alarm without verification which gets very, very slow – if any – response from the Police). [...] [...] The video quality is intentionally low-resolution (read: crappy) because it has been optimized to provide quick detection and to be able to be transmitted to us very quickly. When we receive a NightOwl video alarm in our Kerrisdale Operations Centre, all we need to determine is whether the cause of the alarm is a human or not. If we see anything suspicious, we can call the Police and report a verified crime in progress… which gets a very quick response (as opposed to a regular alarm without verification which gets very, very slow – if any – response from the Police). [...]

]]> http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2007/02/vpd_release_pat.html/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Community Security The Provident Blog » Blog Archive » 911 Response Times Slowing Again in Vancouver Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:41:16 +0000 http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2007/02/vpd_release_pat.html#comment-107 [...] February, the VPD released their Patrol Deployment Study which indicated that Vancouver averaged 13 minute response for Priority One calls… the slowest [...] [...] February, the VPD released their Patrol Deployment Study which indicated that Vancouver averaged 13 minute response for Priority One calls… the slowest [...]

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