SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

Crimes in general and property crimes in particular tend to be underreported to authorities. As a result, the problem may be worse than it appears in statistics reported by police. Crimes of convenience, perceived by the criminal as harmless, undetectable, and not setups, are crimes nonetheless. The authorities are only providing temptation – choosing whether or not to act upon it is still ultimately a personal responsibility.

Theft implies an action carried out surreptitiously, where the thief makes every effort not to be observed. By contrast, robbery involves a direct confrontation between the robber and his victim. Theft is dealt with by Part 9 of the Criminal Code of Canada which is the part that covers property crime. Section 322 in Part 9 creates a general definition of theft, while other sections such as section 326 (which deals with the theft of gas, electricity and telecommunication services) define special kinds of theft.

Thieves will usually choose their targets by looking for those most easy to steal from, or ones that will give them more bang for their buck. For example, women should never leave their purse on the front seat of the car. Thieves may be using a device that allows them to copy the signal sent out when automobile owners use their remote key button to lock their vehicles. The thief records the signal and then watches as the intended victim walks away. Thieves will use a rod or pole through the letterbox to steal car keys from hall tables.

A Neighborhood Thief triggered the camera described below to show and record. The software sent an alert to his mobile phone. The alert message triggered a sound that woke him up. He went to Command Center and saw the thief still in the neighborhood. He called the police and then went outside to chase the teen down. Story made the local news.

The following video made it in the newspapers how effective it is to use the Wilife cameras show here to catch lurking car thieves. When the thief triggered the motion sensor in the video security camera, the software sent an alert notification to the customer’s mobile phone. The alert to his mobile woke him up. He went to the security software to see what the camera recorded. He saw that the thief was still in the neighborhood peeking into cars. He called the police and then went outside to chase the teen down. This story made the local news.

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 4:10 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Dome Cameras are one of the most popular of the security cameras, because it is virtually impossible to pin-point what angle the cameras are placed at, unless at close range. They come in black or white and they all have adjustable lenses.. 

Dome cameras have adjustable lenses and are also available in black and white. Dome cameras are manufactured in indoor and outdoor models. Dome cameras that don’t specify they can be used outdoors, should only be used indoors.

Dome cameras are simply board cameras built into a dome housing. The professional dome camera is built with a high resolution which makes the camera extremely sensitive to light and perfect for low light conditions.

Dome cameras are generally used inside buildings, although the armor domes can be used outside as well. You can mount them on the ceiling or on a wall. Dome cameras are typically used for indoor applications such as stores and supermarkets. It is hard to know when a dome camera is recording you because the dome camera usually smoked or tinted.

Dome cameras are very durable as their casings resist vandalism, extreme temperatures, and adverse weather conditions. They have the most viewing versatility, many being able to pan a full 360 degrees and tilt 180 degrees for full coverage of the room being monitored, and have a decent zoom distance. Dome cameras are used almost exclusively in hallways in hospitals, medical offices, and other offices. Dome cameras are simply board cameras built into a dome housing. We offer day-night domes equipped with high-power infrared LED’s for use indoors, outdoors and low-light conditions.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 3:13 pm and is filed under Surveillance for Business, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

It’s happening every day and People magazine decided to make it their top story in the November 23rd, 2009 edition.

Brittanee Dexel, 17 who went to meet pals at the BlueWater Resort, never returned.

Morgan Harrington was last spotted around 9:30 pm on the Copely road bridge, the next day a passerby found her purse and cell phone.

Lindsey Baum, 10. Lndsey began a 10 block walk back to her house alone from a friends house and never returned home.

Amber Dubois, 14 left her mothers house with a $200 check to take to school to pay for a lamb. Her mother, unable to work for months after Amber vanished.

Child abduction is a serious and traumatic crime. While everyone has become aware of frightening “stranger kidnappings,” abductions are most often carried out by people who know the child. Child Quest International is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the prevention and recovery of missing, abused, and exploited children. Education is an essential element in keeping our youth safe. Children were literally stolen from hospitals, parks, and right off the streets. From 1947 to 1951 alone, over a thousand babies were placed with couples in New York and California (the most common states of placement) through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society.

Child abuse is a unspeakable crime against those who cannot protect themselves, and for many help can come too late. Here you will find information on a great product that when carried in the pocket of a child will enable a child to be found after being abducted as time is critical. One a child is abducted, if not found within the first few hours most likely he or she is already dead.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Sex offenders are clearly a threat and commit horrific crimes, but how great is the danger? After all, there are many dangers in the world—from lightning to Mad Cow Disease to school shootings—that are real but very rare.

Real sex offenders, people who rape and prey on others, should be marked but the average person on the lists didn’t do anything wrong. Get the predators off the streets and we will all be safer. Really, is everyone that naive? No this is MySpace’s way of giving us false confidence.

Sex Offenders have “always” been in our communities. The notification process will remove their ability to act secretly. Sex offenders are classified according to their risk of re-offending: low-risk (Level 1), moderate risk (Level 2) and high-risk (Level 3). The Act requires that DCJS also maintain a public Subdirectory on the Internet which only includes Level 2 and 3 offenders.

Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; but it was not until passage of the Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification Act that law enforcement even knew where they were living.

In many cases, law enforcement is now able to share information with you. Sex offenders is too broad. I wish they maintained a strictly child molester list. Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; but it wasn’t until the passage of the Community Protection Act of 1990 (which mandates sex offender registration) that law enforcement even knew where they were living. In many cases, law enforcement is now able to share that information with you.

Law enforcement cannot dictate where an offender lives, as long as the offender registers his/her residence with the appropriate jurisdiction. Laws are supposed to protect children. Laws like this should give judges some discretion to limit monitoring when appropriate. For some offenders, lifetime tracking might seem excessive.

Police and law enforcement have access to information on all sex offenders (levels 1, 2 and 3). However, under the law, information on level 1 (low-risk) offenders is not available on the public website.

Police forces can also apply for sex offender orders that bar offenders from certain activities and areas frequented by children. The most high-risk offenders are subject to further surveillance – which can include electronic tagging – by local multi-agency public protection panels which include police, probation, social services and other agencies.

Police statistics also underestimate the actual volume of sex offenses, because many such victimizations are never reported to police. Nevertheless, descriptions of the known Vermont adolescent sex offenders are consistent with findings from studies of child sex-abuse victims, which found disproportionate perpetration by men (2,3).

Sex offenders must register with the County Sheriff on scheduled periodic bases, which is determined by their sex offender Tier classification. In addition, sex offenders must register with the County Sheriff any change of residential address, place of employment, or enrollment in a school or institution of higher education.

Now let’s talk frankly about sexual offense prevention tactics—both traditional and new. First, incarceration. Without a doubt, it’s the most foolproof method. Unfortunately, that guarantee lasts only as long as the offender’s sentence which averages about seven years.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 6:19 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

According to a national survey, only drugs are a greater child safety concern among parents and grandparents than child kidnapping!

Despite the concern, more than one-third of respondents did not know that children are more likely to be kidnapped or abducted by someone they know than by someone they don’t. Parents seem to fear kidnapping more than anything else. Some say that excessive television news coverage of child abduction causes parents to have a fear that is overblown.

Parental child abductions are frightening – especially when the children are taken overseas. These cases are difficult to navigate as international laws come into play. Parents are seeing their worst fear on live TV and it terrifies them. The statistics released are also terrifying.

Kidnapping occurs whenever a person is taken or detained against his or her will, and includes hostage situations. Moreover, kidnapping is not limited to the acts of strangers but can be committed by friends, by romantic partners, and, as has been increasingly the case in recent years, by parents involved in acrimonious custody disputes. Kidnapping is actually a combination of two crimes. One is abduction, which involves taking a person from one place to another.

Parents involved in a custody dispute sometimes abduct their children. When one parent has ties to another country, the danger of international child abduction becomes more serious. Parents should also be aware of registered sex offenders in their neighborhood or near their child’s school. Links to sex offender registries nationwide can be found at www.LiveSecure.org .

But now we learn the child usually knows the kidnapper. Besides, to a child, a stranger quickly becomes an acquaintance once the child learns his name, he’s no longer a stranger. But by combining forces and seizing eagerly on opportunities for cooperation, we can do a great deal. But it is just as often that the dream of a happy family and the actual reality are at odds. In spite of the fact that material well-being has increased and technological advances have been made, the European picture of the family is overshadowed by a number of factors.

These days, children are being abducted more than in the past. NCMEC has handled more than 160,000 reports of child sexual exploitation through its congressionally mandated CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.com. For more information about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST (1.800.843.5678) or visit www.missingkids.com. NCMEC is a non-profit system with federal affiliation; they work with the law enforcement divisions on your case. Most other “list your missing child here” websites are hosted by people who’ll contact you and promise to find your child in exchange for large amounts of money.

Check First – children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don’t know. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun. Check First – children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don’t know. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 4:40 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Employee theft accounted for over 41% of inventory shrinkage, while only 35% was attributed to shoplifting. A reason for this is because companies started to direct their attention to and have successfully reduced shoplifting.

Employee theft can occur in any company, despite measures taken to prevent it. The only control an employer has over theft is to lessen the likelihood of it occurring and therefore decreasing the amount of revenue lost. Employee theft situations are occurring quite frequently in the corporate world. The situation has left many organizations in a state of shock.

Business proprietors should be encouraged to report all crime. Proprietors claim the main reasons for not reporting include reporting the crime would not achieve anything (42 per cent); the police could not do anything (42 per cent); the incident was not serious enough to report (38 per cent); and the chance of success was slight (37 per cent).

Small Business owners must be aware of these facts in order to detect employee theft. It is a common fact that most employers do not suspect their employees of theft.

Employee theft can take many forms, from stealing office supplies or merchandise, to stealing time by improperly reporting sick leave and vacation to stealing intellectual property and confidential information. When employee theft is discovered, the employer/owner feels violated and often reacts out of emotion.

Individuals who are saddled with debt are more likely to succumb to financial pressure and steals from the company they work for.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Spy Cam. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Companies need effective systems that can tell them immediately who has a particular asset and where it is located. They also need to track assets that have been disposed of, to ensure that their financial records do not include assets they no longer own.

Asset tracking is a well understood problem and has had several solutions applied to try and solve. One method currently being used is the inclusion of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip inside the asset. Asset tracking and digital home inventory software made simple!

Asset tracking enables asset managers to track asset location and to indirectly monitor the asset usage status in real time by using mobile wireless sensor nodes attached to each asset. The suggested solution will reduce costs associated with asset tracking and management and improve asset utilization and operational efficiency.

GPS asset tracking ensures that any deliveries to be made will arrive at their proper destinations. If a problem arises and a delivery isn’t made, GPS tracking history allows delivery companies to retrace their steps and see what went wrong. GPS asset tracking devices help secure your mobile assets and shipments as they travel around the world and through the distribution supply chain.

With GPS asset tracking systems you can achieve increased asset, and real-time supply chain visibility while, at the same time, reducing your insurance rates and security expenses. GPS Asset Tracking is usually to track vehicle like cars and trucks and some important gadgets like laptops or cell phones. If you have luxury car, you can installed GPS tracking in your car just to protect it from being stolen.

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Surveillance of the public now extends well beyond video cameras to include vast systems of identification, data monitoring, and tracking. And these days portable surveillance is getting smaller and smaller. Public surveillance technologies are increasingly embedded in urban infrastructures, transportation systems, cell phones, identification documents, computer programs, televisions, medical and consumer products, and much more.

Video surveillance systems can also be used inside and outside schools and private residences as an extra measure of security. There are a myriad of different systems with varying levels of sophistication within a wide price range. Video surveillance systems are even common in commercial, industrial, and residential environments.

A common surveillance activity is to track important people, or people exhibiting suspicious behavior, as they move from camera to camera. The Micro PI CamStick PRO is an easy-to-use micro camcorder that monitors your home, office, kids, pets, any place or anything you want, including your cheating spouse. 

Security personnel have to deal with threats of terrorism, the many rules and regulations of the aviation industry, and the hustle and bustle within the terminal. Without using the newest innovations in video surveillance technology, airports wouldn’t be as safe as what they are today.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Spy Cam. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Parents need to be in regular contact with their children whom nowadays almost all carry a cell phone and may be occurring and to check teen cell phones periodically for proper use. Also, parents need to talk to their teens about proper cell phone use and reporting abuse immediately. Parents have even more reason for concern. Parents can also receive a confirmation that evening that their message was sent.

Many times the cell phone of a teen is in another location or in a backpack where in many cases parents cannot reach their child. In an emergency, parents need to reach there child or teen right away.

Parents should also explain to their children that text messaging is not an acceptable forum for discussing more serious matters. Parents, alike, should understand that if there is an emergency, they are to contact the school’s front office in order to reach their child.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pm and is filed under Surveillance News. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Using a Hidden Camera with the new USB/DVR4 has the power of your own PC to obtain a professional grade 4-channel digital video recording system at a fraction of the cost of a “stand alone” DVR. New H.264 compression offers 4 times the storage per gigabyte and higher D1 resolution than other models. Use the power of your own PC to obtain a professional grade 4-channel digital video recording system at a fraction of the cost of a “stand alone” DVR.

The USB/DVR4 has Power of H.264 Compression – 704 x 570 Super Hi Resolution. To set up a powerful 4 cameras professional hidden camera system, simply plug in the USB 2.0 cable to your Windows based PC or laptop, attach your own hidden cameras, and you’re done! All the advanced features, usually found in only high priced, professional units, are at your command.

You may use wired hidden cameras by simply plugging the RCA jack from the hidden camera to one RCA jack of the USB/DVR. Or in the case of wireless hidden cameras, simply attach one end of the RCA cable from the wireless receiver that comes with the hidden camera and the other end to one RCA jack of the USB/DVR.

Bear in mind that using wireless hidden cameras require a wireless receiver and the Line Of site between the camera and the receiver is generally limited to 1,000 Ft. LOS and walls and other obstacles may and probably will decrease the range. In addition a wireless router that is on in the vicinity of the cameras receivers may also interfere with the 2.4Ghz signal if the router is on the same frequency. So, if you can manage a wired hidden camera installation your better off going that route.

The USB/DVR uses H.264 is a video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. Using H.264, you can delivery higher-quality video with less bandwidth than many alternative encoding’s.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.