Thanks To You - Vigilant PPS8G is #1 Best Seller on Amazon

Thank you all for helping to make the Vigilant PPS8G Alarm the #1 best selling product in the entire category of Security Sensors and Alarms at Amazon.com!

(Well, not all of you.  Just those of you who bought one!  :-) )

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/14241131/ref=sr_bs_1

Introducing the Lorex brand to VigilantPPS

We are now an authorized retailer for Lorex branded security and surveillance systems. Here's a link to the first new product from VigilantPPS featuring Lorex :

http://www.vigilantpps.com/lorex-lnc116/

A Tough Calling - Being a Correctional Officer

Being a corrections officer would be a tough calling.

• Correctional Officers (CO’s) have the second highest mortality rate of any occupation.
• 33.5% of all assaults in prisons and jails are committed by inmates against staff.
• A CO’s 58th birthday, on average, is their last.
• A CO will be seriously assaulted at least twice in a 20 year career.
• On average a CO will live only 18 months after retirement.
• CO’s have a 39% higher suicide rate than any other occupation,
• And have a higher divorce and substance abuse rates then the general population.

Sources: “Stress Management for the Professional Correctional Officer”, Donald Steele, Ph.D., Steele Publishing 2001 “Corrections Yearbook 2000, 2002”, Criminal Justice Institute, Middletown, CT “Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2003”, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 31st edition, NCJ 208756 “Suicide Risk Among Correctional Officers”, Archives of Suicide Research, Stack, S.J., & Tsoudis, O. 1997 Metropolitan Life Actuarial Statistics, 1998 Society of Actuaries, 1994 

We at VigilantPPS.com are thankful for our second order of alarm products from the State of Colorado Department of Corrections.  Our thoughts travel with each alarm to your corrections officers.  We are honored that our alarms will be part of your comprehensive plan of safeguarding the people who safeguard us.  Thank you Colorado Department of Corrections!  

It Failed Our Test, So We Won't Sell It

One of the promises that our company founders make and keep is that they will never sell you a product they wouldn't recommend to a friend or relative.  One of the best parts about being a small company is that we get to make decisions for the right reasons.

We recently received a shipment of pepper spray from a new supplier that we intended to market for "back to school."  Rachel (our VP of operations) put it to the test.  As pepper spray can be used as a weapon against the carrier, we are particular about how the product should perform.  This shipment failed our expectations.  

As a side note for you, if you ever do consider buying pepper spray, make sure you get one that shoots out in a stream (so you can direct it) vs. a mist/cloud.  Rachel is not a huge fan of pepper spray anyway, but we believe that some of the best in class products from manufacturers like Mace is what you should consider if you do decide to carry a weapon like pepper spray.  If we ever come across a product that meets or exceeds our expectations, we will make it available. 

So... back to the drawing board on the product we imported.  We likely will donate it or destroy it, but if we won't recommend it to our friends or relatives, we're not going to sell it to you.  Promise kept.