Comments on: Westside Burglary highlights the need for private (and immediate) response http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2009/03/westside-burglary-highlights-the-need-for-private-and-immediate-response.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 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joel http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2009/03/westside-burglary-highlights-the-need-for-private-and-immediate-response.html/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Joel Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:48:51 +0000 http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/?p=540#comment-830 This is a fantastic article that any business needs to read. One other thing to add would be (if at all possible in a business environment like a street side business) a system that deters criminals in the first place, before they commit any crimes. For house hold security there are many things that can be done, but for a street side business like a convenience store, I'm not sure what all the possibilities would be. This is a fantastic article that any business needs to read.

One other thing to add would be (if at all possible in a business environment like a street side business) a system that deters criminals in the first place, before they commit any crimes. For house hold security there are many things that can be done, but for a street side business like a convenience store, I’m not sure what all the possibilities would be.

]]> By: Sommerfeldt http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/2009/03/westside-burglary-highlights-the-need-for-private-and-immediate-response.html/comment-page-1/#comment-826 Sommerfeldt Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:53:42 +0000 http://www.providentsecurity.ca/blog/?p=540#comment-826 I got a tip about your blog through a comment on my own blog, and the "tipper" - Roger - was right. This is one of the best physical security blogs I've seen as well. The need for immediate response to any alarm is essential, and the premise that every alarm is false until proven otherwise is of course false, and the money it might save in needless call-outs is definitely not making up for the losses it incurs when the alarm is valid and no one shows up. I don't know what a private response costs where you guys are, but here it would cost about 100 USD, well worth it. A glass break sensor runs about 20 bucks... Well worth it too. I got a tip about your blog through a comment on my own blog, and the “tipper” – Roger – was right. This is one of the best physical security blogs I’ve seen as well.

The need for immediate response to any alarm is essential, and the premise that every alarm is false until proven otherwise is of course false, and the money it might save in needless call-outs is definitely not making up for the losses it incurs when the alarm is valid and no one shows up.

I don’t know what a private response costs where you guys are, but here it would cost about 100 USD, well worth it. A glass break sensor runs about 20 bucks… Well worth it too.

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