Going Overboard with Surveillance Cameras

Some places are more security conscious than others. Some are just luckier – or perhaps they know how to play the angles.

Dillingham, Alaska, a no-stoplight town with a population of 2,400, received a grant of 2,000 from the Homeland Security Department to install 80 surveillance cameras at the local port and elsewhere around the town, including the Fire Department and City Hall. That works out to a camera for every 30 residents. When citizens complained about procedural issues that led to the grant, the mayor resigned in a huff.

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All of us at Vertex are interested in new developments in surveillance. We try to look at new technology and new equipment and systems as they come out, and we keep an interested eye on new applications for existing security systems technology.

We’re also active proponents of using technology as a tool to improve safety, whether it’s that of your family and home – the people and things that matter to you – or your business. Private property is one of the keystones of our nation’s heritage, and we think back fondly to the old saying, “A man’s home is his castle.” Protecting it and the people who live there is the most natural impulse of humankind, though from time to time it’s good to remember the origin of the phrase.


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