Hydrolife Magazine February/March 2017 (USA Edition)

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Keeping the Cannabis Industry Safe
3SI Security Systems
Malvern, Pennsylvania
1-800-523-1430
3sisecurity.com
45 years in business
"Innovation that Protects"
3SI Security Systems is the world leader in asset protection systems. The
company seeks to create a safer world by protecting and recovering stolen cash
and high-value assets and apprehending criminals. With 45 years’ experience
and protecting more than 250,000 locations worldwide, 3SI’s innovative
solutions combat crime and protect thousands of institutions and organizations
in the financial, retail, courier/cash in transit, and law enforcement markets.
We’ve all seen the action movie
where the bad guys rob a bank
and make a daring escape. Just when
they think they are home free, they
open their money bags and … poof!
Their hands, faces, clothing, and all the
bills they just risked their lives for are
instantly dyed an unmistakable red.
Soon after, the police close in and it is
game over for the crooks.
For the 270 people who work in
offices around the world for 3SI
Security Systems, watching bad
guys get caught isn’t just in the
movies—it’s their job.
“The best part of working at 3SI is
receiving our Robbery Report emails,”
says Lisa Moughan, 3SI’s global
marketing communication manager.
“What that means is that every time
a 3SI tracking device is deployed by
one of our customers in a robbery,
we receive an email update telling
us about the crime, the pursuit, the
capture, and the recovery. It is so
rewarding coming to work every
day knowing that we are helping
to make the world a safer place by
catching criminals.”
3SI, founded 45 years ago in
Pennsylvania, started out by
supplying its trademarked
SecurityPac dye pack products
to financial institutions. From
there, the company expanded to
include GPS tracking and now
serves retail markets and law
enforcement agencies in addition
to banks and credit unions.
With the rise of legal cannabis-based
businesses in
the US and around the world,
especially for retailers and
commercial growers, 3SI’s
products are the perfect fit to
help protect what is still a
largely cash-based industry.
“We are spending a lot of time talking
to people in the industry to better
understand their security challenges
and to understand the business processes
they follow,” says Moughan. “It has
been interesting to learn that they have
many of the same concerns that our other
retail customers have. One differentiator,
though, is that this is a cash-based
business. While the model for a lot of retailers
is to use less cash and more card
transactions, the cannabis industry is
still limited in those capabilities, so they
still use a lot of cash. Storing and moving
large amounts of cash makes them an
attractive target for criminals.”
Moughan adds that 3SI continues to
keep a dialogue open with retailers
and growers to learn how to best
prevent robberies.
“We’ve learned that there are a lot of
times when the product is vulnerable to
robbery and we’ve been excited to learn
that we have existing products that
are perfect to protect product in these
circumstances,” she says.
With direct distribution throughout
North America and Europe, and
indirectly in 40 other countries, 3SI is
considered the global leader in providing
innovative solutions, professional
service, and customer satisfaction.
With a long list of employees who
have chosen to stay for 20-plus years,
the company has an internal saying
of ‘3SI – ONE team,’ one that Moughan
says the team takes to heart.
“We take pride in knowing that our
devices helped capture a criminal,
especially ones that have been implicated
in numerous other crimes,” says Moughan.
“Taking serial and sometimes violent
offenders off the street makes all of
the hard work very worthwhile and we
are looking forward to partnering with
cannabis customers to find solutions to
help them with security concerns.”
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