Sonitrol Pacific | Security System Washington

October 26 apprehension

Sonitrol Pacific Washington Security

Special Thanks To: Mukilteo Police Department
Date: October 26, 2008
Location: Super Handy Mart

Crash, Detect, Respond, Arrest

     Less than five minutes passed between the time Super Handy Mart’s Sonitrol Pacific security system detected activity and when police arrived to arrest a suspect October 26.
     Award-winning Sonitrol Pacific Operator Minta Christopherson received an activation of the store’s audio sensors, heard crashing noises and possible glass breaking, and dispatched police.
     Officers arrived in less than five minutes and quickly took one suspect into custody.
     When police arrived, the suspect was still outside the Super Handy Mart. It is unclear if the individual intended to burglarize or vandalize the store, either way, losses were limited to one broken window. The window was replaced within a day and received a fresh, new Sonitrol Pacific decal.

This type of scenario is not unusual. Twenty-three to twenty-five percent of the time, police arrest suspects outside a Sonitrol Pacific protected facility.

See Sonitrol Pacific's complete 2008 arrest record. In 2008, 178 suspects were arrested due to a Sonitrol Pacific detection and 25 percent of these were detected and arrested BEFORE they could get inside the protected facility. Our systems are designed for the earliest possible detection.