Money Counterfeiters Caught!

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. We have been busy preparing for all the summer events coming up, like the BC Lions games and other summer festivals.

This is a little late but I want to commend two Genesis guards, Ken Duke and Eric Pederson. During the May long weekend at the Cloverdale Rodeo, they helped catch two well-known offenders who were tempting to use counterfeit money. Thanks to Ken and Eric, the police now has concrete evidence on the offenders.

I have always so happy to hear that Genesis guards go out of their way to help. Keep checking back for more updates on the events we'll be doing and the great work our guards do!

Another Great Loss Prevent Officer

Once again, a young Loss Prevention Officer working for the Downtown Business Improvement Association performs a heroic deed. The LPO officer witnessed a man rip headphones and an iPod off of a woman at a skytrain station. As soon as he heard the woman scream for help, his instincts were to help. He ran after the man and told him he was under arrest. The transit police chief awarded the LPO officer for his bravery with the Chief Officer's Award. A big congratulations goes to him! It continues to impress me how willing our guards are to help others without a second thought and am very pleased to have these people on board with us.

4 Year Anniversary of Moble Patrol

Genesis Security originally launched the Free Community Patrol Program in June 2005 around the neighbourhood of Kerrisdale. As neighbourhoods continued to support this program, more funds were invested into it allowing us to offer this service to more areas around Vancouver. Genesis' goal is to create a safer community for everyone and I am so pleased that this program has increased its patrol area ten times. From starting in Kerrisdale, it now covers almost all Vancouver residences and businesses West of Granville Street as well as Downtown and West End areas. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this program and continually help it grow.

Thank you for voting!

Genesis has recently won two awards; the Top Choice Awards and the Best of the Peninsula Award. It has always been our mission to set ourselves apart from other security companies through our customer service and we’ve done it! Thank you to those who nominated and voted for us as well as to our guards to put in their best effort in the work they do.

Celtic Festival

It's our 4th year sponsoring and participating in this festival. We are always very excited to do this. It's what we do to give back to the community. It was cold with rain and snow so a big thank you to Genesis staff who participated and to those of you who came out to watch. We hope you had a great time despite the weather!

Congratulations to a Downtown Ambassdaor

A heroic story happened a couple weeks and I want to share it because this is what Genesis strives to do for the people. A guard was patrolling the Downtown area and noticed a man carrying an elderly lady. The guard immediately pulled over and asked the man what was wrong. The man said that the woman was having a heart attack. Without a second thought, the guard asked for the elderly woman to be put on the ground and began to perform CPR on her. In the meantime, the ambulance was being called and as they arrived, the guard was able to revive her. The woman was immediately taken to the hospital.

Happenings like this are great for Genesis because our mission is to work the community and create safe environments. I really want to commend our ambassador for his quick thinking and going beyond his job.

Project Griffin

Hello everyone!
I just returned back from holidays with the family and I think I'm ready for another one after catching up on all this work. One thing that I would like to share with you all is a program that Genesis Security is very excited about. The program is called Project Griffin, which was initiated in the United Kingdom. The U.K. model is a partnership between the police service and external Security organizations and other public and private sector service agencies. Project Griffin is an organized information-sharing program whereby the police provide it's partners with weekly updates of their crime prevention and anti-terrorism concerns in order to have thousands of additional eyes and ears on the street. Genesis Security has been involved with initial consultation of introducing the Vancouver model to Canada, as well as being seated on the Steering committee with The Cadillac Fairview Corporation and The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority for ongoing development of the program. With Vancouver having the worst property crime statistics of any Canadian major city it was great thinking on behalf of the Vancouver Police department to implement such a program. The ultimate goal here which is quoted by Sgt. Brad Wallace of the Vancouver Police Department is "to increase public safety by supplying organizations and groups with information and support in order to assist them in their crime prevention efforts." I have personally seen the positive effects of this already with our involvement in Operation Cooperation, which is primarily a Downtown Vancouver information exchange between the Vancouver Police and Security professionals. I'll keep you all up to date on the programs successes and new developments. Have a great day!