Wednesday, November 21, 2007

St. Lucia and Security

 
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Fishing News Letter
20 November 2007
Issue 3 Year 1

 

Editor: Petrus Viviers
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St. Lucia and Security
We had a very informative meeting with Alpha Security Services this morning. The long and the short of the story is that proactive security is needed to safe lives. There is nothing wrong with reactive security, but by adopting your security to suite your safety many criminal actions against you can be avoided. This was very informative and each individual has different needs, by analyzing these needs many security risks can be avoided.

To keep in touch with these meetings send Petrus or get in touch with Alpha Security Services on 082 945 7181. They operate from Kosi to Balito.

December 2007 - Tide Table

Date

Day

High am

Low am

High pm

Low pm

1

Sat

08 41

- - -

20 55

14 55

2

Sun

10 06

03 00

22 32

16 31

3

Mon

11 32

04 35

23 56

18 00

4

Tues

- - - -

06 00

12 34

18 55

5

Wed

00 59

06 55

13 21

19 41

6

Thur

01 46

07 45

13 57

20 15

7

Fri

02 23

08 17

14 31

20 47

8

Sat

02 57

08 55

15 01

21 20

9

Sun

03 27

09 25

15 33

21 52

10

Mon

03 56

09 57

16 00

22 18

11

Tues

04 28

10 28

16 35

22 50

12

Wed

05 00

10 59

17 08

23 19

13

Thur

05 30

11 34

17 45

23 56

14

Fri

06 15

- - -

18 20

12 15

15

Sat

06 55

00 35

19 05

13 00

16

Sun

07 45

01 16

19 58

13 55

17

Mon

08 52

02 10

21 08

15 05

18

Tues

10 15

03 17

22 30

16 35

19

Wed

11 35

04 45

- - -

17 59

20

Thur

- - -

06 10

12 37

19 05

21

Fri

01 13

07 17

13 40

20 00

22

Sat

02 12

08 15

14 31

20 49

23

Sun

03 00

09 00

15 20

21 33

24

Mon

03 47

09 52

16 03

22 17

25

Tues

04 31

10 33

16 48

23 00

26

Wed

05 13

11 13

17 27

23 36

27

Thur

05 53

11 52

18 05

- - -

28

Fri

06 30

00 08

18 41

12 35

29

Sat

07 10

00 48

19 20

13 13

30

Sun

07 50

01 24

19 55

13 56

31

Mon

08 40

02 05

20 45

14 52

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Armed Robbery:
Jo-A-Lise Holiday flats where robed on Saturday 18 November 2007. Luckily no body where injured although the ladies where badly traumatized by this incident.
We all feel their pain and it is sad that no one feels safe at their work place any more. The negative spin continues as confidence are lost in certain race group as customers.

St. Lucia and the surrounding communities are totally dependant on the Tourism Industry. It is very difficult to distinguish between races and criminals.

Due to the lack of proactive policing, with a tip off that where received about 6 weeks ago, this crime still took place. Lack of armed response probably saved some lives.

Good response from Alpha Security lead to the arrests of four suspects and the other two are still at large.
St. Lucia is generally a very safe town with few criminal activities taking place. During the year Day Watch does a great job with their visible policing. Their friendly quick response solves many of the crime. Car breakings and attempted high jacking have been foiled by them during the year. This time off the year puts lots of strain on security companies since crime increases drastically.

Since Day Watch is employed to do visible policing and crime prevention it makes business sense to approach another market leader to do proactive policing and panic response.
What is the difference one may ask. Day Watch is tasked to patrol the streets and respond to call outs but they cannot monitor each persons well being and protect individual properties.

Armed response is needed for families and people that need a reaction service when a panic button is pressed. This is an added service that is over and above the call out and response from the patrolling vehicle.
The company tasked with preventive policing can not automatically be tasked for panic responses, since this is added pressure on their resources. So when they need to respond on personal alarms and panic call outs they need extra payment.

Up until recently St. Lucia only had one alarm and panic response company to choose from. Current market trends has developed to such an extend that more companies are approached to render this service.
New technology, proactive security systems and response time will play a great role in dictating this growing market segment.

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