Fire System Valve Theft Suspect

On December 14, 2012 a brass standpipe valve was stolen from the fire system in the parking garage of a Golden Valley business along the 394 corridor.

We understand that business properties in Brooklyn Park, Edina, Plymouth, and St. Louis Park have been the victims of similar thefts.  

The theft occurred at 4:22 pm on Thursday, 12/13/2012.  The Golden Valley Police Department case number is 12-3216.

Thanks for any help.

Gordon Graham at INFRAGARD

In June 2011, the Mall of America and the Minnesota Chapter of InfraGard presented: Terrorism, Social Media & You, but our featured speaker, Gordon Graham, had to cancel last minute. 

On January 16th, 2013, we bring Gordon back for a 2 hour session on “Why Things Go Right – Why Things Go Wrong”.

Gordon Graham is a nationally recognized expert on risk management, whose work has had tremendous impact on the risk management effectiveness of law enforcement operations and private sector companies around the country.

This event is FREE. Sign up now to reserve your seat as seating is limited http://tsmy2.eventbrite.com/

Gordon Graham – “Why Things Go Right – Why Things Go Wrong”

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 from 9am to 11am

Mall of America
Great Room (located in the SW corner of Nickelodeon Universe)
60 E Broadway, Bloomington, MN

Registration is Required – Please RSVP at Event Brite http://tsmy2.eventbrite.com/

Business/Police Academy Kick-Off

Business/Police Academy Kick-Off

November 2, 2012 at 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Bloomington Police Department

This event requires registration: http://www.minneapolischamber.org/bmsm

Business/Police Academy Kick-Off - FREE Event

As a part of our Business Matters/Safety Matters series, we will kick-off our Business Police Academy in partnership with the Bloomington Police Department!

Modeled after the popular Citizen's Police Academy, this series will offer participants an business oriented inside look at how the police department operates, its policies, procedures, programs, priorities and challenges. Presentations are by Police Department personnel and cover a wide spectrum of topics.

At this free kick-off event, we will receive our welcome from Police Chief Jeff Potts, Police Dispatcher Stacey Bays will discuss 9-1-1 operations, and then we will take a tour of the Police Department.

Future topics will include a business-based look at Crime Techs, a K-9 Demonstration, SWAT Team, Bomb Squad and Use of Force.

Location:

Bloomington Police Department
1800 West Old Shakopee Rd.
Bloomington, MN 55431

To register (Free) visit:

http://www.minneapolischamber.org/bmsm

Event Organizer: 

Mark Thorson, Commissioner, Bloomington Housing and Redevelopment Authority | Police Reserve Officer | Marketing/PR Professional

MN ASIS October Meeting Speaker in the News!

Vikki Sanders – Public Sector Principal Consultant for the Department of Labor was interviewed on KARE11 last evening.

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/993381/396/What-happened-the-day-of-the-Accent-Signage-shooting

For 24 years, Vikki Sanders has worked at the Department of Labor and industry as the Workplace Violence Prevention consultant for the state of Minnesota. She has worked 7 years as an OSHA investigator and 14 years as a consultant specializing in workplace violence, general industry and public sector employer safety and safety committees.

Vikki has taught over 450 businesses and 45,000 employees on safety topics to a variety of industrial and public sector settings including healthcare, education, housing, manufacturer and business.

As a Consultant/Trainer and Co-Author of the workplace violence prevention manual, Vikki Sanders offers practical tools of awareness and understanding that will help make your workplace safer. 

There are still seats available for the October 11 meeting!


Join us on Thursday, October 11th, 2012, from 11:30am-1:00pm, at the Chateau Medicine Lake, 10715 South Shore Drive – Medicine Lake, MN 55441

Please visit the ASIS Minnesota Chapter #25 to register 

http://www.mnasis.org/meetings/meetings_speakerbio_2012_10.html

Pre-registration is required and must be received no later than October 4th, 2012.

$25 for local MN Chapter of ASIS Members
$35 for Non-Members

Cancellations must be made by 4pm on October 9th, 2012.

If you have questions or need further information, please email lmountain@hannonsecurity.com

Lisa Mountain, CPO
Business Development Manager
Hannon Security Services, Inc.
952-887-1119 phone
952-881-6524 fax

MN ASIS October Meeting - Workplace Violence Prevention

Topic: Workplace Violence Prevention

Speaker: Vikki Sanders – Public Sector Principal Consultant for the Department of Labor and Industry

For 24 years, Vikki Sanders has worked at the Department of Labor and industry as the Workplace Violence Prevention consultant for the state of Minnesota.   She has worked 7 years as an OSHA investigator and 14 years as a consultant specializing in workplace violence, general industry and public sector employer safety and safety committees. 

Vikki has taught over 450 businesses and 45,000 employees on safety topics to a variety of industrial and public sector settings including healthcare, education, housing, manufacturer and business.

As a Consultant/Trainer and Co-Author of the workplace violence prevention manual, Vikki Sanders offers practical tools of awareness and understanding that will help make your workplace safer.

Join us on Thursday, October 11th, 2012, from 11:30am-1:00pm, at the Chateau Medicine Lake, 10715 South Shore Drive – Medicine Lake, MN 55441

Please visit the ASIS Minnesota Chapter #25 to register http://www.mnasis.org/meetings/meetings_speakerbio_2012_10.html

Pre-registration is required and must be received no later than October 4^th, 2012.  

$25 for local MN Chapter of ASIS Members

$35 for Non-Members

Cancellations must be made by 4pm on October 9th, 2012.

If you have questions or need further information, please email lmountain@hannonsecurity.com

Lisa Mountain, CPO

Business Development Manager

Hannon Security Services, Inc.

952-887-1119 phone

952-881-6524 fax

A Review of Mass Murder in the United: A History

When faced with dramatic and horrible crimes we naturally seek ways to make sense of the senseless.  Such is the case with mass murder, such as we saw committed in a movie theater in Colorado and a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin.  Where shall we turn?  There seem to be very few experts on mass murder. Perhaps that's because - despite the 24 hour news media's urgent pronouncements to the contrary - it's rare. Author Grant Duwe, Ph.D., Director of Research at the Minnesota Department of Corrections, is an expert on this highly specialized and frequently misunderstood topic. He's written on the issue for years and was widely quoted in the aftermath of the mass murder in Aurora, Colorado.

Duwe's 2007 book, Mass Murder in the United States: A History, is a fine piece of scholarship that draws upon his detailed examination of 909 mass murders committed in the USA during the 20th century. He makes a compelling case that mass murder is not new, that the rate of mass murder is not on the rise, and that the severity of each incident is not, on average, increasing.

Mass Murder in the United States draws upon 909 mass murder events in the U.S. in the 20th century.  Duwe tells us that mass murder scenarios break down into three broad categories: criminal massacres of competitors, public mass murders, and family annihilations.  He selected cases in which four people were killed in an event lasting less than 24 hours.  Duwe detected two surges in the data. The first, in the 1920-30s, were largely divided between gangland crimes – the “The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre” being a notorious example – and family annihilations perpetrated by distraught Depression-era fathers with a sadly misapplied sense of obligation to their families. The second wave started in the mid-1960s, peaked in the 1990s, and is now in decline. The wave of mass murder our generation has lived through is evenly divided between criminal massacres, public mass murder – in public, in schools and at work, and again, family annihilations. Grimly interesting is the fact that bombing and arson have accounted for a higher proportion of deaths than most realize.

Duwe's discussion of moral panics and the role the news media play in the social construction of concern on this and other issues is very helpful to those of us interested in understanding why hysteria frequently drives public discourse. As we attempt to engage in productive discussions about frightening events we must lead with facts rather than fear. If you would have an opinion on this topic you owe it to yourself, your clients, and your community to read this book.

Mass Murder in the United States: A History, by Grant Duwe
Paperback, 213 pages
ISBN-13: 9780786431502 Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 6/28/2007

Secure360 2013 Call for Presentations are Open!

Secure360 will be held May 14-15, 2013.  The call for presentations are open.

If you have knowledge to share and would like to submit an abstract for a one-hour breakout session, please visit our website to access the Call For Presentations. Click on the "for speakers" drop down, then choose "call for presentations" and follow the prompts. 

Topic Ideas

Over 800 risk management and security professionals attended the 2012 conference.  Secure360 strives to offer education on a wide range of topics including the following: 

 

• Physical Security
• Audit
• Project Management
• Forensics
• Privacy
• Facilities Management
• Incident and Emergency Response
• Business Continuity Management
• Governance
• Security Technology
• Innovation
• Enterprise Risk Management

 

Go to our website and submit your presentation idea.