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Kirk MacDowell, an executive with a 39-year career in the electronic security industry, has been selected as the new chairman of the board for the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC). SIAC is the industry’s liaison with law enforcement for dispatch reduction and alarm management issues. SIAC’s model alarm ordinance, developed in conjunction with national law enforcement leaders, is being adopted nationwide.
An issue recently arose in California where a police dog was used to seize and retrieve a suspect. The plaintiff fled into a thicket of bushes during a police chase.
James Gagliano is a retired FBI supervisory special agent, CNN law enforcement analyst, doctoral candidate and adjunct assistant professor at St. John’s University. He will present the day two keynote, “21st Century Best Practices: Reporting from the Front Lines on How Law Enforcement and the Security Industry are Confronting Emerging Threats.” ISC East eNews spoke with Gagliano ahead of the show to find out what he plans to talk about and what he hopes attendees will take away from his keynote.
The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) Directors Award of Distinction for Excellence in Alarm Management was presented to the Atlanta Police Department during a December Command Staff Meeting.
Police Protection, based in Charlotte, N.C., announced that security platform company Global Guardian, out of McLean, Va., is using its Cooperative Alarm Sharing Transmission (CAST) product and that a dozen large monitoring companies have agreed to pilot it.
Securitas Electronic Security Inc. has donated $7,200 to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The donation was made as part of a charitable element integrated into the Securitas Electronic Security tradeshow booth at the 2016 ASIS International Seminar & Exhibits in Orlando, Fla.
French anti-terror police have requested the video footage from the July 14 terror attacks in Nice, France, be deleted to avoid “uncontrolled dissemination,” but Nice officials argue the footage must be kept as evidence, according to an article by BBC.
