By Deborah L.

Q'Mara
This month we start our new feature focusing on the value of central station dispatching and alarms in thwarting crime and preventing losses. For more information or to submit an entry for the feature, contact Deborah. omara@cygnus.com.

Business Busts Burglary in Progress with Video

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CRIME SCENE INFORMATION

Date/Time of Incident: 10/23/2012 1:44 a.m. Location: Indianapolis. Ind. Offender: White male; Michael A. Scott, 43 years old Incident Type: Break in at TCElectric, 205 W. Morris Street, Indianapolis

Charges filed: Subject arrested on site and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia; one count of burglary; one count of criminal mischief; and one count of criminal trespass. Responding Alarm Company: Logistics Safety & Security Corp. Responding Law Enforcement Agency: Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, 50 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis

Monitoring Firm: Acadian Monitoring Services, Lafayette, La.; Dispatchers Brandon Villery and Gustavo Sanchez

Narrative: According to Kelly Steven Zeigler, chief security officer, Logistics Safety & Security (LSS) Corp., Greenwood, Ind., TC Electric had a rash of robberies in a month, with about four occurring during that time period. LSS installed video verification equipment from ~SI Video Technologies (Videofied) and within one week of the installation, a catch was made.

"You have seen suspected Monitoring October the parking

thieves

caught

on camera

before,

but the on

camera that caught this guy also sent the video to a dispatcher

at Acadian

Services," said Zeigler of 15S. Video taken Monday morning lot after cutting the fence. Deployed premises wireless

23, 2012 at 1:44 a.m. at TC Electric shows a man walking through digital cameras a dip of were activated by motion and captured

at the protected monitoring

the event. The system then sent the video to the Acadian central station, the services partner for 15S. "With this video verification technology, had police dispatched and the perpetrator and Marion was the central station operator

Above: Kelly Steven Zeigler, chief security officer, Logistics Safety & S~;ciJrity (LSS) Corp., and Mike Nelson, chief logistics officer, installed video alarm verification equipment at an area company and police made an apprehension. Right: The Videofied equipment installed in the back lot of TC Electric captured a clip of a burglary in action. Photos courtesy LSS Corp.
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in cuffs in less than 12 minutes," Zeigler added. According charged dispatcher to the Indianapolis Police Department County Sheriff's Department reported report, Michael A. Scott was arrested on the scene and and criminal mischief. The police a male, bald with a around. that the video clip had captured

with burglary, criminal trespass

white shirt outside of the business The suspect, when approached discovered drug paraphernalia

in the back lot by the utility trucks and could see the male walking police officers, ran from the officers. The officers also as well as a hacksaw and

trailers and said the alarm company

by dispatched on the suspect

scene and was chased and caught by responding pair of bolt cutters in the gravel, and observed www.SecuritylnfoWatch.comISD&I

a fresh hole cut in the fence.

November

2012