In This Issue

• Association News
  Beware of Security Scams!!!
  Register Today for the 2005 CAA Winter Convention
  Give Thanks for Affordable Training

• Member News
  Bosch Helps Community Combat Crime
  Brink’s Home Security Recognizes One-Millionth Customer
  "It Takes a Thief" to Feature NBFAA Member
  CPP Alarm and Video Promotes Weatherford to V.P.
  Member Benefit Spotlight: Paychex

• Industry News
  Your Voice Counts: Members Encouraged to Provide Input to ASIS
  PDQ: Promoting Partnership in Public Safety
  Verified Response Lingers Over Dallas

• In The News
  NBFAA in the Headlines

Summary

Association News

Beware of Security Scams!!!
Members and fellow security professionals beware— a widespread telephone and e-mail scam is circling the security industry.

Register Today for the 2005 CAA Winter Convention
Register today for the 2005 California Alarm Association (CAA) Winter Convention that will take place Dec. 1-3 in San Francisco at the Crowne Plaza.

Give Thanks for Affordable Training
Affordable, accessible training is a huge benefit from the NBFAA. Maximize your benefits by using the generous discounts available to your company.

Member News

Bosch Helps Community Combat Crime
Bosch Security Systems has been working with the non-profit Lancaster Community Safety Coalition to help combat crime in the community by advancing crime prevention strategies and deploying Bosch video cameras in public spaces.

Brink’s Home Security Recognizes One-Millionth Customer
Brink’s Home Security recognized Edward and Laurie Stolarz, who reside in the Boston metro area, as their one-millionth customer on Oct. 8.

"It Takes a Thief" to Feature NBFAA Member
The PROTECT Smoke Cannon™ will be featured in an upcoming episode of the Discovery Channel’s "It Takes a Thief" series.

CPP Alarm and Video Promotes Weatherford to V.P.
Jack Weatherford has been promoted to vice president of CPP Alarm and Video, the First Alert Professional/Honeywell authorized security dealer in Sacramento.

Member Benefit Spotlight: Paychex
Let Paychex—a leading national provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits services for small-to medium-sized businesses—handle these tasks! NBFAA members receive a 15 percent discount on payroll processing.

Industry News

Your Voice Counts: Members Encouraged to Provide Input to ASIS
The Commission on Guidelines of ASIS International has begun to reevaluate and revise their first guideline General Security Risk Assessment, which was published in 2002.

PDQ: Promoting Partnership in Public Safety
The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) and the False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA) are continuing to seek entries for the Police Dispatch Quality (PDQ) 2006 Award program

Verified Response Lingers Over Dallas
Is a compromise in the works for the verified response issue lingering over Dallas? Dallas police are willing to still respond to residential burglar alarms, but not commercial alarms.

In The News

NBFAA in the Headlines

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Association News

Beware of Security Scams!!!

Members and fellow security professionals beware— a widespread telephone and e-mail scam is circling the security industry.

In several cases, scam artists are trying to order large quantities of smoke detectors. In particular, some people are using “Sprint relay operators” to request a sale of goods from the business. Relay operators are individuals who act as a voice for hard of hearing or deaf people with the use of telecommunication devices.

Various versions of this scam have been going on for several years, with criminals ordering goods from a business with the use of a stolen credit card. Large shipments of everything from bulk candy to car stereos and even books have been scammed in the past.

At NBFAA, we want to inform our members and our fellow security professionals about this crime. By reporting the scams, you can help alert other businesses.

For more information about this issue or to make a complaint, contact the Federal Communication Commission at www.fcc.gov or (888) 225-5322 or your local Better Business Bureau.

You can also visit the following Web sites for tips on how to keep you and your business from being a victim of scams.

• http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=508
• http://www.fraud.org/thisjustin/crooks_find_new_way.htm

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Register Today for the 2005 CAA Winter Convention

Register today for the 2005 California Alarm Association (CAA) Winter Convention that will take place Dec. 1-3 in San Francisco at the Crowne Plaza.

Registration for the convention is available online at: http://caaonline.org/caa_convention.asp or you can contact the CAA at (800) 437-7658.

Make online hotel reservations at the Crowne Plaza

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Give Thanks for Affordable Training

Affordable, accessible training is a huge benefit from the NBFAA. Maximize your benefits by using the generous discounts available to your company. For more information on a course, contact NTS at (866) 636-1687. Complete course schedules for 2005 are also available at www.alarm.org/nts/. These schedules are updated regularly, so be sure to check back often. Don't forget that NTS training is also available online!

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Member News

Bosch Helps Community Combat Crime

Bosch Security Systems has been working with the non-profit Lancaster Community Safety Coalition to help combat crime in the community by advancing crime prevention strategies and deploying Bosch video cameras in public spaces.

The Crime Prevention through Environmental Design project, which started with some dedicated members and some donated equipment from Bosch, is a new approach to crime prevention. By incorporating high tech security equipment and redesigning certain public areas to make them less susceptible to criminal activities, the project enables community members to take an active role in helping police monitor trouble areas, while keeping the members out of harm's way.

According to a recent Keystone Poll, over 70 percent of the residents surveyed strongly support or somewhat support the use of video cameras in public spaces to combat crime.

The coalition has been so successful in its "Crime Prevention by Environmental Design" program that other communities have expressed an interest in adopting similar crime prevention programs based on the interest received from the coalition's presentation at the 2004 Pennsylvania Downtown Center annual conference in Pittsburgh, Penn.

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Brink’s Home Security Recognizes One-Millionth Customer

Edward and Laurie Stolarz, who reside in the Boston metro area, were recognized as Brink’s Home Security’s one-millionth customer with the delivery of a $10,000 check by Brink’s Armored Truck on Nov. 5.

The money was donated in their name to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, to welcome the Stolarz family as a special customer, Brink’s installed the security system and awarded over one million minutes of free system monitoring service (three years free monitoring).

“We have reached this important milestone through our employees’ commitment to providing customers with superior service, rapid response and peace of mind,” said Bob Allen, president of Brink’s Home Security.

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"It Takes a Thief" to Feature NBFAA Member

The PROTECT Smoke Cannon™ will be featured in an upcoming episode of the Discovery Channel’s "It Takes a Thief" series. Lion Television, an independent production company that creates the show from New York, sent a field producer to ISC West 2005 in Las Vegas to look for security products that could prove a worthy foil to the show’s co-hosts, highly-skilled ex-burglars. The Smoke Cannon caught the producer’s eye in the Sands Expo lobby, where the fog-based burglary deterrent was making its Western Hemisphere debut.

PROTECT, who is an NBFAA member company, was chosen to play a role in the security makeover of a high-end automobile repair shop. The canon eliminates burglary losses by filling protected areas with dense but harmless clouds of fog if break-ins occur. The show seeks real households and businesses to add to the educational value of watching ex-crooks do their magic.

The product has been featured on several television and news programs since its U.S. launch in April 2005, including NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS and NBC affiliate newscasts.

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CPP Alarm and Video Promotes Weatherford to V.P.

Jack Weatherford was promoted to vice president of CPP Alarm and Video, the First Alert Professional/Honeywell authorized security dealer in Sacramento. Over the past ten years, he has served as a Life Safety Consultant, Installer and Sales Manager at CPP. Weatherford’s primary responsibilities include team development, client relations and operations management. Prior to CPP, he managed several camera stores, served as a county correctional officer and as an Air Force weapons crew chief for the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. CPP Alarm and Video is a member company of NBFAA.

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Member Benefit Spotlight: Network 1 Financial Corporation

Paychex (800) 729-2439 www.paychex.com

Let Paychex—a leading national provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits services for small-to medium-sized businesses—handle these tasks! NBFAA members receive a 15 percent discount on payroll processing.

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Industry News

Your Voice Counts: Members Encouraged to Provide Input to ASIS

The Commission on Guidelines of ASIS International has begun to reevaluate and revise their first guideline General Security Risk Assessment, which was published in 2002.

This guideline is considered a living document by the organization and ASIS recognizes the need to reevaluate and revise it to reflect changes in the environments in which it applies.

Currently, ASIS is soliciting comments on the guideline, as well as volunteers for their Risk Assessment Guideline Committee. We encourage you to review and send comments on the existing guideline.

Once all the comments are received, the commission will form the guideline committee to evaluate comments, make recommendations, and draft a new guideline.

The guideline, comment and application forms are located on the Web at www.asisonline.org/guidelines/guidelines.htm. Comments and applications must be submitted by Nov. 29, 2005.

For more information, visit www.asisonline.org.

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PDQ: Promoting Partnership in Public Safety

The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) and the False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA) are continuing to seek entries for the Police Dispatch Quality (PDQ) 2006 Award program.

The award is designed to recognize alarm installing and monitoring companies following established industry practices in order to reduce the number of unnecessary police dispatch requests.

The deadline for PDQ Award submissions is Dec. 1, 2005. Applications and other information can be found at http://www.siacinc.org/PDQ.asp.

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Verified Response Lingers Over Dallas

Is a compromise in the works for the verified response issue lingering over Dallas? Dallas police officials say they are willing to still respond to residential burglar alarms, but not commercial alarms. Is this really a compromise?
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