My wife and I had dreamed of owning our own business for years, since we are both health advocates we decided to open a gym. Sadly, the local trouble makers had no respect for our dream and they nearly sent our dream to an early grave. I want to relate the story of how a quality security camera system was instrumental in saving our gym in the hopes of helping other small business owners to prevent this kind of thing from happening to them.
After much planning and taking out a sizable loan, my wife and I were finally able to open our gym in southern Arizona on February 7th, of 2009. In the first few months we struggled with the usually problems that new businesses face, but by July of that year we were doing well enough to show our first profits. Things seemed to be going very well for us until one September morning when we came in to work and found graffiti all over the front of new gym. We were extremely disheartened by this and the problem continued to get worse over the next couple of months, with the police unable to figure out who was vandalising our business.
After some of customer's vehicles were broken into, the members of our gym began to come less frequently and some even cancelled their memberships. My wife and I had to figure out a way to help put a stop to this, so after much thought and research we decided to invest in an eight camera surveillance system. We managed to get the camera system installed during the first weekend of December so that most of the cameras were clearly visible and this seemed to put an end to the defacement of our property. Unfortunately, we were struck again in January of 2010 again, one of our member's car was burglarized as well as more graffiti being left on the building.
This time our new security cameras recorded the entire event and we got some very high quality video of this crime. When we showed the footage to the police, they were impressed with the quality of the video and said that they thought it would make catching the parties responsible much easier. Within two days they arrested the group of five teenagers that was causing all the problems for us. One day later they had all confessed to the deeds after being confronted with the video evidence provided by our camera system.
In the year since that happened we've been the target of vandalism twice more, both times the delinquents that committed these acts were quickly apprehended and prosecuted. After we were able to demonstrate to our clients that our gym was once again a safe environment, our membership slowly grew again and we are currently doing quite well. The message I want to get across to those reading this is to invest in a quality security camera system installed to prevent this kind thing from happening to you before your business is damaged, if at all possible.
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