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Digital cameras protect a local utility: digital cameras, DVRs, and panic buttons for employees are helping to protect a rural electric cooperative.

Publication: Security Management
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Digital cameras protect a local utility: digital cameras, DVRs, and panic buttons for employees are helping to protect a rural electric cooperative.(SMART SOLUTIONS TO SECURITY PROBLEMS)

Article Excerpt
MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE LULLED into complacency by the serenity of the rural Midwestern landscape. Not Jimmy Jester. As director of operations and safety for Co-Mo Electric Cooperative in Tipton, Missouri, he did not want to wait for an incident to occur before upgrading the utility's surveillance system to protect co-op employees.

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The Co-Mo Electric Cooperative delivers electric power to 26,000 members in a 2,300-square-mile service area. From its head office in Tipton and a district office 35 miles to the south in Laurie, the nonprofit co-op manages and maintains a 3,700 mile electricity distribution network. Its service area stretches from the Missouri River in the north to the Lake of the Ozarks in the south.

Crime has never been an issue for the co-op, but Jester knew that just one violent incident, such as might be caused...

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