The FirstVu captures an impressive 133° field of view, recording more of the scene than many body cameras and allowing the wearer to record up close without missing details. Although proprietary software is not required to view recorded videos, the FirstVu includes user-friendly yet powerful back office video management software that allows administrative setup capabilities, playback, searching and retrieving, DVD burning, file integrity checks to detect tampering attempts, chain of custody reports, and more.

Every FirstVu includes: high-quality video/audio recording and the ability to take still images, pre-event recording capabilities to capture footage even before pressing record, an integrated 2.2” color LCD screen, detailed event data with the option to input additional meta information, “Mark” feature that allows for quick return to important events, vibrating notifications, user login and security options, 16GB of internal memory and more. Optional removable microSD cards may be used to add memory or activate redundant recording.

The FirstVu is currently on sale for $200 off list price. Contact Digital Ally at 800-440-4947, sales@digitalallyinc.com or visit www.digitalallyinc.com to learn more.

Digital Ally also provides a complete line of law enforcement grade products, including digital in-car video systems integrated into a rear-view mirror; a waterproof digital video system that is modular to fit motorcycles, boats, or any other motorized vehicle; a digital video flashlight camera and more. Digital Ally’s systems are used by thousands of companies and law enforcement entities in all 50 states and around the world as well as the U.S. military.

Pensacola, FL, April 4, 2012

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“We worked closely with the Missouri Board of Private Investigator and Private Fire Investigator Examiners during the curriculum review process.” said http://PIeducation.com Course Director, L. Scott Harrell. “The Board wanted to ensure our training met their professional standards and that we would serve the licensees of Missouri with quality training opportunities. We’re proud to have met and exceeded their expectations.” Harrell concluded.

The following continuing education courses are currently approved in Missouri:

Serious Surveillance: Obtaining Video Evidence that will Stand up in Court  – Approved for 14 CE Hours in Missouri

Investigations in the Land of the Lost: The Art of Skip Tracing and Missing Persons Investigations – Approved for 14 CE Hours in Missouri

Industry Ethics and Laws for Private Investigators – Approved for 2 CE Hours in Missouri

We suggest to all of our Missouri continuing education clients to take one of the above approved 14 hour investigative studies courses and if you order any of these courses priced at $119.95 or above you will receive the 2-hour Ethics course absolutely FREE.

Missouri Continuing Education Requirements:

Chapter 324 – Occupations and Professions General Provisions
Section 324.1122 A licensee shall successfully complete sixteen hours of continuing education units biennially. An individual not licensed as a private investigator or private fire investigator who is hired as an employee by a private investigator agency or private fire investigator agency shall successfully complete eight hours of continuing education units biennially. Such continuing education shall be relevant to the private investigator or private fire investigator business and shall be approved by the board as such.

About PIeducation.com

PIeducation.com has provided CEUs to Investigation Agencies and their employees via Internet and distance education since July 1, 2002. As of March 2012, the company has conferred over 104,000 CE hours to private investigator licensees in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Oregon, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and Iowa.

There were three main bills affecting our industry.  On two of these bills we achieved success and the third is still pending.

First of all, the successes:

HB-674 (the GPS bill).  This bill would have banned all uses for GPS tracking devices.  This bill never got out of committee, and is now dead.  Unfortunately we will probably see similar legislation next year.

HB-1048 (the Process Serving bill).  This bill provides for obtaining of “Certified Process Server” designation directly from the Administrative Office of Courts without going through the Sheriff’s Offices.  Once you obtain this designation, you would be able to serve civil process filed in any county in Georgia without an appointment from the courts or the permission of the sheriffs.

The pending:

SB-421 (the vehicle registration bill).  This bill would have granted licensed Private Investigators access to Department of Revenue records regarding motor vehicle registration.  This bill passed out of committee in the Senate, but did not pass out of Rules Committee.  Although this bill is dead, our lobbyists are still working with Senator Barry Loudermilk to get this done.  More on this later.

All of the rest:

All other pieces of legislation discussed during this session of the General Assembly are dead, and will have to be re-committed next year. Nothing affects  Continuing Education for Private Investigators in GA

There were also 114 “confirmed” security officer “on-duty” deaths as a result of a combination of homicide, accidental, industrial and “unclassified” incidents. But actual death totals are believed to be 12%-20% higher and misreported in other worker classifications. 11 Security officers also committed suicide while on-duty. The breakdown of the deaths were:

54 Gunshots

11 Stabbings

19 Traumas/Assaults

10 Car Accidents

6 Industrial Accidents

14 Unclassified

Keep in mind, these are “registered” deaths, a security officer may have gotten killed while at work, but they listed his death as an Employee death. OR they may not have listed the death at all and just claimed him as a diseased loss and the family was the one who handled it – Lastly, they could have been killed while not on duty. The average age of the security officer killed in the line of duty was 38. The states with the most incidents of security officer injuries, assaults and deaths included New York, California, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Louisiana, Virginia, Indiana, and Nevada.

It should be some sort of common knowledge by now that guys in the mob tend to hold grudges. I mean, who hasn’t seen the Soprano’s?! But I guess if you’re that one random person who doesn’t know anything about the mob or its sensitivity to respect and ownership from pop culture or the news, then God help you.

Like this poor cop, Officer Ralph Dols. He apparently married the ex-wife an alleged mobster, and not even ex-wives can really escape a mob guy’s wrath. It seems like an unfortunate truth that women that are related to or involved with the mob don’t ever really get away from those men, and they bear the weight of keeping the face of respect in-tact.

Thomas “Tommy Guns” Gioeli has been traced back to by the FBI as the murder suspect. The acting boss of the Colombo organized crime family “wanted Ralph Dols dead and he turned to that man,” Posa said, pointing to Gioeli in the courtroom, “to get it done.”

The slaying of Officer Ralph Dols in the summer of 1997 is one of six gangland murders from the 1990s that can be traced to Thomas “Tommy Guns” Gioeli, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cristina Posa said. The six homicides had gone cold for a decade or more until the government cultivated a new crop of mob turncoats who agreed to testify against Gioeli and another alleged Colombo crime family member who’s standing trial with him. Some of the cooperators have pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, defense attorney Carl Herman said Monday. He accused the government of “offering deals to criminals and murderers.”

Herman also claimed there was no physical evidence linking the 59-year-old Gioeli to any of the killings.

Dols, 28, was ambushed around midnight as he arrived home from a shift as a uniformed housing police officer. While parking his car, a man jumped out of a dark-colored Chevrolet, fired seven shots, and fled.

The killing touched off an intense, wide-ranging investigation involving federal and local authorities. It also drew attention to the officer’s wife and her alleged links to the Mafia through three other men from her past: a brother and reputed Colombo soldier who was convicted of murder in 1981, a previous husband found shot to death in 1987 in an apparent mob hit, and Joel Cacace — the acting Colombo boss and her husband before Dols. The police officer “had the bad sense to marry a mobster’s wife,” Herman said. However, Gioeli “wasn’t present when Ralph Dols was killed. He never conveyed any order,” he added.

Dol’s widow, Kimberly Kennaugh, did not attend the opening statements. In an interview with the Daily News published Sunday, she said she hopes the trial will clear her name and bring justice for her dead husband. “I’ve been attacked as if I pulled the gun,” she said. “I want closure for Ralph’s family. I want closure for him. … I want closure too.”

Kenya National Private Security Workers Union General Secretary Isaac Andabwa said they will give the government a 21-day strike notice on Monday. “We have been cheated for long, our members are suffering because it appears the government does not have any plans to regulate this sector,” Andabwa said. “We are giving a notice tomorrow (Monday). We will go on strike in three week’s time.”

He told journalists in Nairobi Sunday that the union is disappointed by the government’s slow pace in reforming the private security sector which has been neglected for many years. The Private Security Industry Regulation Bill 2010 which outlines a raft of measures to be taken in reforming the security sector has been pending in Parliament for the last two years.

The Bill calls for the registration of all security firms, training of its personnel and proper remuneration for all private security guards. The union is particularly disappointed because despite pledges by the Labor Ministry every year that the minimum wage for the private security guards will be increased, guards have continued to earn as little as Sh3000. The union officials told journalists that they had written to the Labor Minister John Munyes on several occasions but no response has been forthcoming. “We have never heard from the Minister, we only hear of pledges which are never implemented and that is why we are tired, we must act. And that is why we want to go on strike,” Andabwa said.

The union’s National Chairman Elijah Manani said they have realized that unless the government is pressurized, guards across the country will continue to suffer. Private security guards play a vital role in maintaining security because they are the ones who guard various buildings and various other vital installations in the country. If they make good their threat to strike, Kenya is likely to face a major security challenge. “If we go on strike, there will be no one to guard the banks and other buildings around, even the Judiciary is guarded by our people, and can you imagine if we go on strike what will happen?” Andabwa posed.

Like the case of Gilbert Olivares in California, who is accused of secretly videotaping students having sex in his office on campus. Yeah, you read that right. This guy used his position as a counselor to get students out of class to spend more time with him, and allowed students to have sex with each other in his office and then recorded the whole incident for his viewing pleasure. It appears the videos were taken without the knowledge of the victim students, and Olivares is not in the room at the time.

Olivares was arrested last week on suspicion that he sexually molested a 14-year-old boy in his office multiple times. On Tuesday, police said new evidence and information on Olivares’ relationships with students — and how he used his position of authority to create child porn videos — surfaced when investigators searched his house in Salinas. Police said they identified at least two students who they believe were victimized, and are working closely with Salinas High administrators to identify more victims.

A red flag was raised when a 14-year-old boy’s parents became concerned about a change in their son’s behavior, police Commander Vince Maiorana said. The parents looked to find answers on their son’s Facebook page and found disturbing private messages sent between the counselor and the Salinas High student, Maiorana said. Olivares has coached hundreds of kids in the Salinas Continental Little League. Little League officials and Sunrise House directors said they ran background checks on Olivares and found he had a clean record.

This is another one of those incredibly sickening stories of someone blatantly abusing their influence over kids that are supposed to be in their guidance for their own disgusting ends.

Officer Matt Bonner was working on a special traffic enforcement project when his car was directly hit on the driver’s side, trapping him inside. The accident happened at the intersection of Old Denton Road and Whitlock Lane shortly before 10:30 a.m.

Tim Bailey is an Irving security guard who was walking his dog nearby and saw the accident. Bailey said he heard Bonner try to radio for emergency help, but was groggy and losing consciousness. Apparently the dispatcher did try to radio back to check on Bonner, but he was too injured to respond. This is when Bailey leapt into action, grabbing the microphone to describe the urgent situation.

“Bonner is down, badly! Please come to Whitlock and Old Denton Road, right in the intersection,” the Good Samaritan said, adding: “Hang in there, officer.”

Carrollton police Lt. Doug Mitchell said hearing a civilian’s voice on a police radio is extremely rare and deeply troubling.

“When you hear that, it goes from zero to a hundred in a split-second,” he said.

Officer Bonner did lose consciousness, but suffered non-life threatening injuries and was last reported in stable condition after emergency personnel cut him out of his squad car. Authorities also say that the exact cause of the car accident is under investigation.

These kinds of stories involving a security officer who acted out of gut instinct to help save someone is a breath of fresh air compared to other stories of people in the PI and security world who you only see in the headlines for PR stunts they created or for being caught in some sort of unsavory and illicit conduct. These are the kinds of headlines that we should, as an industry, be far more used to seeing, instead of negative stories of our colleagues that are almost bad enough to make us hang our heads in shame.

Although interestingly, prosecutors say that the only person who actually committed a crime was Nagy, and as he was now deceased there was no need for further investigation of this incident. Lantych ultimately survived the ordeal due to quick-thinking bystanders who were able to give rudimentary medical attention to Lantych until he paramedics were able to see him.

Nagy, 43, was a 19-year veteran of the Hamilton department. He and his wife, Katherine, had two children. His wife knew Lantych from her work as the Beverly department’s domestic violence victim advocate. Lantych also tells reporters that he and Nagy’s wife, Katherine, were never intimate and that she had once “poured her heart out,” to  Lantych.

The prosecutor’s report said that on the day of the shooting, Nagy called in sick for his midnight shift, woke up his wife, and told her he believed she was having an affair with Lantych; they also discussed divorce, the report said. Found with Nagy’s body at Starbucks was a journal and copy of a suicide note, in which he said he intended to shoot Lantych and kill himself.

Not for the first time has this kind of story been heard of. In fact, there are several stories of officers having affairs with their colleagues and superiors wives. It’s been called one of the most problematic interdepartmental issues within the ranks of officers.

According to the IBIS research, between the years 2010 and 2015, companies will increase their security budgets as business sentiment improves and more funds become available. Many businesses will increase the number of contracted security staff, as well as the number of hours that guards are on duty. The rise in demand is projected to cause industry revenue to increase by 4.9 percent per year to $32.85 billion at the end of 2015.

Although we have this projected estimation, like we said before, it depends on both perception and reality of the economy. The Pew study shows that Americans consider the economy in an even worse position than in 2008, when the nation was in the middle of the recession. At that time, only 34 percent of Americans saw the country’s economic future as bleak. Today, that number is up to 55 percent. This negative perception also drives the security business, causing Americans to take extra precautions against crimes of opportunity – those that are committed when people grow desperate as a result of their jobless, financial situation.

Another factor driving the security industry’s projected growth is the reduction of government jobs. According to the February jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, one-fifth of the industries with the largest projected wage and salary employment declines are government agencies or municipalities. Existing public safety personnel, including local law enforcement, will go on the chopping block – leading to outsourcing.

In late February 2012, a government-owned and operated electricity company in Tennessee laid off61 percent of its uniformed police officers and replaced them with enhanced security technology and more contract security guards at its critical non-nuclear energy sites. This is just one example of public budgets feeling the squeeze and opening the door for private security, which generally provides more affordable protection than traditional law enforcement – with the added benefit of keeping the reduced number of traditional law enforcement officers on the streets, patrolling areas that are more impacted by serious crime.