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The Town of Highland Park, Texas, became the 22nd public safety answering point (PSAP) in the U.S. and the fifth PSAP in Texas to join the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) program. 

Guardian Protection Services, ranked No. 6 on the SDM 100, announced that President Joe Colosimo will resign effective May 12.  

CANASA announced that its Executive Director J. David Ritter has resigned. Ritter assumed leadership February 13, 2017.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) has renewed The Protection Bureau’s Five Diamond Monitoring Center designation. This designation is granted annually to monitoring centers that satisfy all of the requirements of the five points of excellence, the company said in a press release.

Skylar Odin of Miami Springs was awarded ESA-FL’s first place in the Youth Scholarship Program. Odin’s father is Chief of Hialeah Fire Headquarters and her “guardian angel,” as she wrote in her essay.

Vector Security recently announced the winners of its 2017 Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) scholarships, which provide financial support to loss prevention professionals seeking to obtain Loss Prevention Qualified and Loss Prevention Certified certifications.

DMP announced the successful completion of its first surveillance audit following the transition to the 2015 edition of the ISO 9001 quality management system standard in 2016.
 

The first official annual meeting of the newly-named The Monitoring Association (TMA) will build on the previous successful meetings of the Central Station Alarm Association. TMA will welcome keynote speaker Jack Uldrich, a well-recognized global futurist, speaker and author of 11 books.

Jon Sargent retired from Tyco Integrated Security on April 14 after 44 years in the security industry.

TMA announced Napco Security Technology’s David Lyons died on April 18, 2017.