February Meeting
Date: February
1, 2005
Time: Social Hour, 5 PM,
Dinner, 6 pm
Place: Sons of Italy, Norwalk
Click
here for a map and directions
Speaker:
Detective Sergeant Peter
Dispagna, Stamford PD
Topic: Property
Crimes and how businesses can work closer with local law enforcement
Chapter News
click on the headline for more info
Certification
Review Courses to be held in Boston in February
NYC
ASIS Chapter will hold CPP Review
For
more info
InfraGard
Quarterly Meeting will be February 2, 2005 in Hartford.
Sponsored by Citigroup. Open to all ASIS Members!
For
more info
DHS
TOPOFF 3 Exercise Scheduled for April 2005. Private Sector
Participation Encouraged.
For
more info
New York State
Publishes Household
Emergency Preparedness Brochure.
Download a copy here
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the Leadership Update Newsletter from National
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Meeting
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January's
Speaker
Fred Dupuis, Director
of Security for the CT Lottery System, gave us an intriguing look
at the behind the scenes operations of the lottery.
The level of security that goes into preventing fraud in
the daily drawings is impressive.
Fifteen trial runs are made before and after each drawing
and the balls are weighed and tested. All this to prevent rigging the outcome.
He talked about theft and fraud detection on scratch
tickets sales at 2800 retail outlets.
Scratch tickets account for 62% of lottery sales.
Fred also
detailed how every lottery sales terminal in the state is tied
into the Amber Alert system for almost instantaneous dissemination
of descriptions of
persons and vehicles involved in child abductions. The Lottery’s 300 electronic message units will show the
descriptions statewide.
Fred also had a couple of great
anecdotes about lottery winners coming face to face with the
Deadbeat Dad laws. |
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It's Winter, Think Golf!!!
The
Annual ASIS Scholarship Drive Golf Outing is scheduled for Thursday,
June 9th at Grassy Hill Country Club in
Orange
,
CT.
We are looking for volunteers to assist with the event.
Available positions include “CLOSEST TO THE PIN”, “HOLE IN
ONE”, “REGISTRATION TABLE”, “GOODIE BAG ASSEMBLERS”,
“SIGNAGE DISTRIBUTION” and others.
SECURE
YOUR SPONSORSHIP EARLY!! Sponsorships are available for all
holes and tees as well as the Contest Holes and Goodie Bags.
RAFFLE!!
Last year's raffle was one of the biggest yet. With your help,
we can make this year’s raffle even BIGGER. Raffle prize
donations will be accepted at any time and we’ll even pick them up.
Please
contact Greg Kalafus at gregory.kalafus@securitasinc.com
or (203) 708-5080 for more information.
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Chairman's
Message February 2005
Happy new year to
everyone. Sorry I missed
you at the last meeting, and in January and February I will be
visiting colleges with my son, therefore I will not be able to attend
this month's meeting. I am in constant communication with the other board members
and committee chairpersons.
Many thanks to
Vice-chairman Frank Teti on two terrific speakers in December and
January. I have received
excellent feedback from many members on the information presented the
last two months. Fred
Dupuis, security director,
Connecticut
state lottery, gave an excellent presentation last month on the
Connecticut
Amber system and lottery security.
This month our
excellent run on speakers continues. We
have Detective Sergeant Peter Dispagna, bureau of criminal
investigations, property crime unit commander, Stamford police
department. Sergeant
Dispagna will provide us a 30 minute presentation on property crime as
it pertains to and affects, not only the general public, but corporate
business and the security professional: Property
retention safekeeping and how the security community can aid and work
closer with their local police departments.
Future meetings
include our annual corporate meeting, at Purdue Pharma in may, a
possible police chiefs round table for April and the golf outing in
June.
Many other events
coming soon: CPP
reviews in
Boston
and
New York
and the
Boston
trade show on May 4th.
Well wishes and
peace to all.
Steven
j. Korf
Chapter Chairman
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Tsunami
Donation
In early January, the Chapter made a
cash donation to support in the immediate aid and reconstruction of
areas so badly hurt in late December. We chose the American Red
Cross' Disaster Relief Fund as the recipient and sent a $500
contribution.
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Purdue
Hosts May Meeting
May’s
meeting will be hosted by Purdue Pharma, One Stamford Forum, 201
Tresser Boulevard,
Stamford
. Dan Arenovski, Associate Director of Security, Purdue and
recently elected Secretary for Infraguard CT Chapter, will be our host
for the meeting.
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WE
WANT YOU!! - Membership Committee Steps Up the Drive:
The
membership committee will begin an E-mail campaign with the purpose of
increasing attendance at the monthly meetings. Since November of
last year we have had excellent speakers whose topics have ranged from
the Amber Alert System, the Rhode Island Station Fire to Bombing,
Terrorism and Evidence Collection. Email reminders will be sent
out on the Thursday and Monday before the meeting. Please click
on the included E-mail link to respond so we may expect your
attendance.
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Newsletter Archive
Beginning this month, we
will archive the Chapter News page from previous months. Links
on the page will stay active, so you can find older items of
interest. Click on the button below to go to the
archive.
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