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Cumberland County and Fayetteville, NC Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) Implement Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) for Faster, More Accurate Emergency Dispatches
The Cumberland County and Fayetteville, North Carolina Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) are the latest agencies to implement Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), technology that automates communication between alarm monitoring central stations and PSAPs / 911 centers, resulting in faster, more accurate emergency response for users of monitored alarms. The Fayetteville PSAP dispatches emergency services for the city, while the Cumberland PSAP dispatches for all other cities in Cumberland County. Residential and commercial alarm users in these areas, including nearly 1,200 Vector Security customers, will benefit from reduced call processing times leading to quicker, more accurate emergency response. vectoresecurity.com
 

Fl. Supreme Court Orders Palmer Recovery Associates to Close Practice
On August 29th 2019, The Florida Supreme Court signed a 30 day order for the uncontested petition for disciplinary revocation of James R. Palmer of Palmer Recovery Attorneys. The court stated disciplinary revocation is tantamount to disbarment.

The court and Florida Bar have given Palmer 30 days from the date of the order to close out his practice and protect the interests of existing clients. The court further ordered that Palmer accept no new business from the date of this order.  Read the full court document here.

Lowe's Stepping Up the Pace Lending Helping Hand With Hurricane Dorian
Trucks Moving 24 Hours a Day - 300 Associates on Relief Teams Set to Deploy
The company, with its corporate headquarters in Mooresville, has established that site as a Command Center with distribution facilities in Statesville, Wilkesboro, Georgia and Florida expediting emergency supplies to stores in Florida over the weekend to help those preparing for the storm, according to a media release from the company.

The company has already done the following to help communities prepare, according to a summary from the company:

• Lowe's has shipped more than 800 truckloads of supplies to coastal markets.

• Lowe's continues to roll in additional supplies by the hour and is moving trucks 24 hours a day, with store night crews receiving truckloads around the clock.

• Lowe's has relief supplies staged at its Statesville distribution center ready to deploy to help communities recover after the storm. This summer, associates at Lowe's Mooresville headquarters filled 20,000 buckets of essential cleanup supplies, including bleach, gloves and trash bags.

• Lowe's will distribute these critical supplies in Florida based on community needs.

• Lowe's has about 140 stores and thousands of associates in the path of Hurricane Dorian.

• After hurricanes, specially trained Lowe's associates voluntarily leave their stores and homes to serve on associate relief teams. They provide additional customer support and give fellow associates a chance to focus on their families. About 300 Lowe's associates from across the Southeast, including the Carolinas and beyond, are set to deploy to the impacted region to help.

• Lowe's has already committed half a million dollars this year to support nationwide disaster relief and recovery efforts and is working with strategic partners like the American Red Cross to ensure communities have available shelter and emergency assistance.  statesville.com

'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters
How does the restaurant chain do it?
Waffle House restaurants are often used to gauge the magnitude of disasters in the Southeast: If a store is open, your community has been spared. If the store is open but has a limited menu, you've probably gotten some damage. If the store is completely closed, you’re in a disaster zone.

State, local and federal governments unofficially use this so-called Waffle House Index as a barometer for how quickly a community is going to recover after a disaster. When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle last October, for example, it affected nearly 500 restaurants throughout Florida and Georgia in one way or another. All but three of them – located in the Panama City area, which was among the hardest hit by the storm – were back to full operations within hours or days of the storm.

Preparations for the storm typically start days before it’s expected to hit. At the Waffle House headquarters in Norcross, Georgia, a team of executives will activate the “Waffle House Storm Center” – a conference room in the building that suddenly turns into a military-level operations room filled with company engineers, restaurant operators, food safety experts, meteorologists and more. usatoday.com

   Waffle House Index says the coast is clear from Hurricane Dorian - at least for now
   “We are open everywhere,” CEO says

   $9 for a $4 case of water: Florida hit by price gouging ahead of Hurricane Dorian

Activist loses UK court case on police facial recognition
A British court has ruled that a police force's trial of automated facial recognition technology is lawful, dealing a blow to an activist concerned about its implications for privacy. The court said Wednesday that existing laws adequately cover the trial by the South Wales police force, in what's believed to be the world's first legal case on how a law enforcement agency uses the new technology. magicvalley.com

DOJ Settles with U.S. Security Associates Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim
U.S. Security Associates Inc. (USSA), which was recently acquired by Allied Universal Holdco LLC (Allied Universal) - the largest private security firm in the United States. Prior to its acquisition, USSA provided security services to hospitals, schools, financial institutions, government facilities, events, and other businesses. The settlement resolves a claim that USSA's Falls Church, Virginia office violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens when verifying their work authorization. The settlement applies to USSA and Allied Universal.

Under the settlement, USSA or its successor will pay $194,000 in civil penalties to the United States and be subject to departmental monitoring and reporting requirements. Additionally, certain employees will be required to attend training on the requirements of the INA's anti-discrimination provision. justice.gov

Drones tackle out-of-stock merchandise
Pensa is pushing a system that combines autonomous drones, computer vision and artificial intelligence for in-store inventory management - employing emerging technology to do what humans have traditionally done. Pensa Systems platform is the front-end deployment in retail stores of small, camera-equipped drones that capture stock conditions on store shelves. The drones are self-guided and automatic, acting as "a roving pair of eyes for staring at the shelves," Schwartz says.

Stock inputs captured by the drones' cameras are forwarded in real-time and stored in the cloud, affording stores immediate visibility into their stock positions. The AI architecture then learns and analyzes information from the shelves, such as recognizing how products are managed while drawing conclusions about inventory status. stores.org

Police Foil a 3,000-Person Hide-and-Seek Game at an IKEA
The plague of IKEA hide-and-seek surfaced over the weekend at its huge store in Glasgow, Scotland. Police were called after being alerted that some 3,000 people on Facebook said they planned to mob the store for hide-and-seek. Five police officers remained at the IKEA store in Glasgow for most of the day on Saturday.

IKEA officially banned hide-and-seek in 2015. Months before the ban was instituted, tens of thousands of people had signed up online to play hide-and-seek at IKEA stores in Europe, including retail warehouses in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Prague. IKEA had to officially ban hide-and-seek at stores Australia too.

It seems like the IKEA hide-and-seek phenomenon hasn't hit the U.S. yahoo.com

In Business Continuity, Accept the Unexpected
​It is one thing to expect the unexpected. It is quite another to accept the unexpected. Denial is a powerful thing, and even the best of us can be convinced that our plans are comprehensive and our preparedness complete.

The key ways to overcome this sort of complacency are to link crisis management and business continuity meaningfully, and to incorporate Adaptive Business Continuity principles that enable an organization to react quickly to the unexpected.

Consider that the past few years alone have seen increasingly active Atlantic hurricane seasons, major cyberattacks against global corporations, and secondary losses of key infrastructure following major disasters. Organizations in the public and private sectors are asking their teams to do more with less while also performing to higher standards. The need to recover quickly from losses is as important as ever, while in many cases the resources are thinner than they used to be. These realities require new and innovative approaches.

Security managers are in a key position to influence their organizations if they adopt practical notions in their BC approach. And, in some cases, it is the security manager who is tasked with creating a new BC program where none existed, or worse-with reviving one that has languished.

Great in-depth article in August ASIS 2019 Issue and written by the chair of ASIS International Crisis Management and Business Continuity Council, Brendan Monahan. asisonliine.com

New Jersey's 'Dream' Mall Oct. 25th Opening: 40M People & a Traffic Nightmare
After 16 years of false starts, the behemoth American Dream retail and amusement complex is set to open just west of Manhattan. To get there, an expected 40 million visitors must join the traffic-choked roads of northern New Jersey.

The complex's 3 million square feet (279,000 square meters) are 45% retail and 55% entertainment, including what Triple Five calls the Western Hemisphere's biggest indoor theme park, North America's only indoor snow skiing and a DreamWorks water park. Among the tenants are Saks Fifth Avenue, Hermes, Century 21, a kosher food market and a 20-restaurant dining terrace.

"The problem is going to be it's so congested that you can't get there," said Senate President Steve Sweeney, a South Jersey Democrat. bloomberg.com

Cool Job
Baseball Office of the Commissioner
Manager, Security & Facility Management Posted for Major League Baseball
This position serves as the chief liaison for security & facility management between Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), also commonly referred to as Minor League Baseball (MiLB).


This position is primarily responsible for advising the Clubs, ballparks, and personnel of MiLB on security & facility management best practices and standard operating procedures, as directed by MLB's Security & Ballpark Operations Department. The person filling this role will report directly to MLB's Vice President of Security & Ballpark Operations, or designee, but will perform many duties at the direction of MiLB leadership. mlb.com

Whole Foods hand-scanning system processes payments in less than 300 milliseconds

Macy's Upgrading 100 Stores on top of the 50 last year

Some retailers resist price increases on tariff-impacted goods


Quarterly Results
American Eagle Q2 comp's up 2%, net sales up 8%
Michaels Cos. Q2 comp's up 0.3%, net sales down 1.8% (Closed Pat Catan's Stores)
 

Vancouver, BC: RCMP make arrest in connection to sale of fraudulent smartphones

Ontario: Police say identity thief tried to obtain credit from jewelry stores in Oakville, Burlington

Medicine Hat, AB: Man trying to use stolen credit card arrested by police officer behind him in line

Langley, BC: RCMP release images of nine suspects wanted for theft, fraud, and more

Thunder Bay, ON: Police warn PIN-stealing 'fraudsters' may be en route to the city

Toronto, ON: 2 arrested after series of store robberies, BB gun shootings

Midland, ON: Thieves target locked food trucks in late-night 'smash-and-grabs'

 

Robberies & Burglaries

●  C-Store - Grand Falls-Windsor, NL - Armed Robbery
●  Liquor Store - Halifax, NS - Robbery
●  Unnamed Store - Toronto, ON - Multiple Robberies