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STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA - The bar uses the surveillance video to actively monitor its more than 100 bartenders to ensure they are serving, and charging, the correct amount. “It’s my responsibility to watch internally and not just bartenders; it’s to watch all employees and make sure they’re doing what they’re paid to do,” Haase said. “During orientation they’re all told they’re under surveillance and we’ll be watching for anything that goes wrong.”

SAN DIEGO—An end user with buying power is often bombarded with sales pitches and endless promises. But how can security practitioners be sure they’re getting exactly what they need? The UC San Diego Health System thinks it has found a way to ensure that the video surveillance system it eventually purchases won’t come with any surprises.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano liked the New York transit system's security slogan so much that she launched her own "see something, say something" campaign on Thursday.

Napolitano announced the vigilance drive, part of a national information-sharing partnership with Amtrak, in Penn Station, one of the world's busiest train stations.

The NYPD has launched its ambitious plan for a network of surveillance cameras to combat terrorism and detect suspicious behavior in lower and Midtown Manhattan, Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday.

Speaking at the Association for a Better New York, Kelly detailed the initiative featuring cameras so sophisticated that they can zero in on an unattended briefcase or pinpoint suspects by their jacket color.

Losses from retail theft nationwide totaled $33.5 billion last year, down from $36.5 billion or 1.51 percent in 2008, according to preliminary results of the National Retail Security Survey (NRSS).

The latest findings from the NRSS, conducted each year by the University of Florida with a funding grant from ADT Security Services, were announced Tuesday at the National Retail Federation’s Loss Prevention conference in Atlanta.

DALLAS—While the primary focus of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is to treat sick children, it also must ensure that only authorized people enter the hospital. However, protecting children doesn’t just lie with the hospital’s security personnel, said Carlton Stewart, director of security, during a tour of the hospital as part of a preview show for ASIS International Seminar & Exhibits in Dallas on Oct. 12-15.

Despite speculation that the worst of the recession is over, many retailers continue to experience an uptick in theft, even at stores that were not previously thought to be ideal targets for organized retail crime.

Shocking CCTV footage showing a masked robber beating a 43-year-old shopkeeper with a telescopic metal baton have been released.

Mother-of-two Deb Kemp was left with a four-inch gash on her head and needing 12 stitches after the raid in Coventry.

NEW YORK - About half the 4,313 security cameras installed along New York City's subways aren't seeing a thing - a blind spot in the crime and terrorism safety net for the nation's largest city.

"A lot of those cameras don't work, and maybe someday we're going to get very badly hurt because of it," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.

"LAS VEGAS—Protecting students on an urban campus is always challenging, but when a university faces high levels of crime, including gang activity, ensuring safety requires more than a standard policing approach."

"OZARK, Mo.—Operating 350 IP-based video surveillance cameras at one of the largest churches in the country originally began as a way to protect the church against accusations of sexual misconduct, but has evolved into a way to better protect parishioners and improve operational efficiency."

"LONG BRANCH, N.J.—When the Long Branch Public Schools decided to upgrade its video surveillance system, they didn’t want to simply see what was happening, they wanted to see exactly who was doing what. “We wanted to be able to see everyone in our football stadium,” said Joseph Ferraina, superintendent at Long Branch Public Schools. “We kept hearing problems with this and problems with that and the solution we were looking for we wanted to look into the crowd and pick people out and identify them.”"

"Using a four-camera wireless video surveillance system, the Hawthorne Police Department in Southern California has made crime “virtually nonexistent” in a 6.2-acre city park, the Los Angeles Times reports. The department aimed to reduce alcohol violations, marijuana use and drug dealing, truancy and vandalism in Eucalyptus Park."

"It’s one of the most common complaints by those in the loss prevention profession: Police don’t take retail theft seriously enough. And how could they be expected to? As police departments continue to face serious budgetary shortfalls that often lead to reductions in manpower, they are being forced to concentrate efforts on the most serious of crimes."

"Research company Frost & Sullivan has recently released its "Asia Pacific Video Surveillance Market" report, which is now available also from ResearchandMarkets.com. The report "provides country specific response of the market for video surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), network video recorders (NVRs), video servers, and surveillance software. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following geographic regions: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, ANZ, emerging countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam), China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, and Japan."

"With over 15,000 highly-trained security personnel, backed by a arsenal of military hardware, Vancouver is about to spend $1 billion in security for the Winter Olympics. The original budget for games security was 175 million Canadian dollars in Vancouver's Olympic bid, but has snowballed to about $1 billion, said an AP report. "