security

INTERCON SECURITY
Limited has devised a new
weapon in the war against
theft from vehicles in corn-
mercial parking lots.

Security officers employed by
the company have been given
mountain bikes fo use on patrols
of parking facilities belonging to
Marathon, Buildings Group, at
Vancouver’s busy waterfront.

Replacing surveiliance by  of-
ficers in cars and on foot, the
bicycle patrols sre conducted
around the clock at Marathon's
two underground garages and one
surface lot which serve some 2,500
vehicles daily.

After a four-month trial period,
the bicycle patrols have proven
‘exceptionally effective’ in reduc-
ing theft from vehicles and vehicle
break-ins, according to Marty

icycle patrols thwart thieves

Leiter, manager of Intercon in
Vancouver.

“The experiment was a success
from day one,” sale Leiter.

Marathon is credited with first
introducing bievele patrob, which
Intercon now plans fo use in its
Toronto and Chicago locations.

“We've gone from two to three

inzidents in our parking fa-
cilities to zero,” said Dan Fisk,
manager of life safety and security
with Marathon,

Fisk introduced bicycle patrols
to Calgary recently in the city's
downtown parkine facility at
Palliser Square.

“Ma:athon parking facilities ou
the Vancouver waterfront have
high use by tourists out-of-state
and out-of-province, whose vebi-
cles are most likely to be targeted
by thieves,’ Fisk observed.
“However, our problem was

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inimal compared to the ongoing
problem of theft fram vehicles in
greater Vancouver.”

According to police, ‘tough
times are the primary reasou for
the escalation in theft from auios
recorded over the past two years
in the Lower Mainland.

For the first nine months of
1992, 477 vehicles were stolen and

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Fisk said the promary advantage
of bievele patrols is their stealth,

Random patterns and sequene-
ing of patrols, which can range
from 60 seccnds to 40) minutes
apart, also make it difficult, for
thieves te opesate in patrolled fa-
cilities.

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The Intercon bicycle patrol of-
ficers wear uniforns similar to
viese Of the RCMP's bicycle
patrol but in Intercon Security's
shade of royal blue, plus bicycle
helmets bearing the company
crest.

Leiter added that the patrols
also serve as a public relations
Presence,

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