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Home Surveillance: All systems are remote capable which means that you can view your home anywhere in the world as long as you have an active high-speed internet service. There is no monthly charge for remote service. You can double up your system to use it as a baby monitor, make sure your kids are safe in the yard. Have a piece of mind knowing that your house is protected by real-time and recorded surveillance. Also you get free lifetime tech support.
Business Surveillance: Self explanatory. Did you know that a business' biggest weaknesses is it's own employees?
2001 National Study Shows Losses From Employee
Theft Reach Record Levels
The latest National Retail Security Survey reports that losses from employee theft have reached record levels and that total inventory shrinkage cost U.S. retailers $32.3 billion last year, up from $29 billion the year before.
According to University of Florida criminologist Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D., who directs the National Retail Security Survey, the results indicate that in 2000, retailers lost 1.75 percent of their total annual sales to shrink, up from 1.69 percent the prior year. Hollinger said that the results of the survey should serve as a wake-up call to the retail industry that shrinkage continues to be a multi-billion dollar source of revenue loss.
Where Inventory Shrinkage Happens:
- Employee Theft 46%
- Shoplifting 30.6%
- Administrative Error 17.6%
- Vendor Fraud 5.8%
The study, conducted by the University of Florida with a funding grant from ADT Security Services, Inc., a unit of Tyco Fire and Security Services, discovered that retail security managers attributed more than 46 percent of their losses to the thefts of disgruntled workers. In comparison, 31 percent of retail losses were the result of shoplifters. Employee theft was up 2 percentage points from the previous study.
Internal theft now costs U.S. retailers $14.9 billion annually, compared to shoplifting costs of $10 billion. Employee theft and shoplifting combined account for the largest source of property crime committed annually in the United States.
The remainder of the annual retail losses are due to paperwork errors at 17.6 percent and theft by vendors at 5.8 percent, according to the data obtained by analyzing theft incidents from 116 of the largest U.S. retail chains.
"Given that the surveyed portion of the retail economy annually transacts over $1.845 trillion dollars, this percentage of loss is worth over $32 billion," Hollinger said. "This means that the single largest category of larceny in the United States is the crime that occurs in retail stores. This figure is larger than motor vehicle theft, bank robbery or household burglary combined."
"With the uncertainty in consumer confidence and warnings of a slow shopping season, retailers need to look beyond the selling floor to increase and protect their profits," said Mike Snyder, president of ADT Security Services. "Technologies such as anti-shoplifting systems, digital video surveillance and point of sale monitoring solutions, tied together with remote and central station monitoring, will help retailers contain some of these losses without sacrificing good customer service."
Covert Surveillance: Sometimes you need and edge on things. Covert security will give you that. From a ball point pen recorder, a screw in the wall, smoke detector, buttons, and lot's more can be your eye in the back of your head. Law enforcement options are availabe too!
Video
On the lighter side of things Sur-Com also offers some minor video production services. Projects as small of making picture DVDs or Blu-Ray to producing full productions. A very popular project is graduation DVDs or sports DVDs. Also taking old media like VHS or 8mm and converting it into the most recent media such as DVD or Blu-Ray.
Computer
Computers are everywhere now. Sur-Com Tech now offers minor computer repair. We will help with viruses, reformatting and minor networking.