Panic button vital to crime prevention
Recent arrests by Beagle Watch enforced the importance of keeping the panic button close to the home or business owner.
It’s the beginning of the rush season for local security companies in the northern suburbs as the festive season fast approaches.
Most security companies have been hard at work, some even going out of their way by conducting raids and awareness programmes in an effort to ensure that their precincts are safe.
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Recent arrests by Beagle Watch reinforced the importance of keeping the panic button close to the home or business owner.
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The company’s unique reaction time of fewer than three minutes paid off during two arrests. The first was that of a suspect caught in the act of using counterfeit money in a shop on Beyers Naudé Drive, Northcliff, while the second arrestee was a male who attempted to rob a shopkeeper in Berario. Both incidents were thwarted by reaction officer Siphamandla Soko, who reacted to the panic button activation.
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