PROTECTION PLUS News Release

Toron­to, Octo­ber 16, 2022:

Top 10 Under 40: Brandon Baum, chief security officer, Protection Plus

Bran­don Baum talks about how he joined the fam­i­ly busi­ness and why tech­nolo­gies like video ver­i­fi­ca­tion and cloud-based access con­trol con­tin­ue to change the secu­ri­ty indus­try.

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Toron­to, April 12, 2018:

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Security system donated to Salvation Army Thrift Store in Whitby after garbage dumped at site

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The Sal­va­tion Army Thrift Store in Whit­by says peo­ple have been dump­ing garbage in and around their dona­tion bins.

Vol­un­teer Tra­cy Roul­ston says it’s cost­ing the char­i­ty mon­ey and vol­un­teers’ time.

“Imag­ine going to work in the morn­ing, you’re vol­un­teer­ing and you’re being told ‘It’s time to clean up this garbage,’” said Roul­ston. “Now, with mon­ey that’s raised at ket­tles through­out the hol­i­day sea­son, we have to use that mon­ey to take this stuff over to the local dump.”

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“You’d be pret­ty hard pressed to find some­thing that was sal­vage­able,” added Roul­ston. “It was sheer garbage.”

Roul­ston says she reached out to secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny Pro­tec­tion Plus and they donat­ed a secu­ri­ty sys­tem to the store, which is being installed Tues­day.

To thank them, Roul­ston has orga­nized a food dri­ve on their behalf.

You can stop by the store at 311 Brock Street between 9:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Tues­day to drop off non-per­ish­able dona­tions.

They are in need of peanut but­ter, canned fruit, Ham­burg­er Helper and beans.

The orga­ni­za­tion is ask­ing you to dou­ble check the expi­ra­tion date on the food before donat­ing it.

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Toron­to, April 12, 2018:

Once again PROTECTION PLUS® Inc. is proud to announce that they are recip­i­ents of a “Home­s­tars Best of 2018 Award”. This is the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year PROTECTION PLUS has received this award.

“Nine years ago, the Best Of Awards (BOA) were cre­at­ed to hon­our com­pa­nies who are the best in their spe­cif­ic indus­try. They were also cre­at­ed as a way for Home­S­tars to show you, the home­own­er, that your reviews real­ly mat­ter and impact a company’s suc­cess.” The award rep­re­sents excel­lence for integri­ty, cus­tomer ser­vice and con­sis­ten­cy.

“As a com­pa­ny, we feel the “Home­s­tars Best of” awards are very impor­tant as they are a direct result of our cus­tomers’ feed­back and reviews. Every per­son in our com­pa­ny takes great pride in cre­at­ing a pos­i­tive expe­ri­ence for our clients, and the pos­i­tive feed­back it gen­er­ates. It’s tru­ly a team effort, every­body must work togeth­er as a team, with that com­mon goal, to pro­vide trust and sat­is­fac­tion to every cus­tomer.” Says Allan Baum, Pres­i­dent of PROTECTION PLUS .

The Home­s­tars “Best of” awards were pre­sent­ed in Toron­to on March 8, 2018, and at oth­er loca­tions across the coun­try.

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Toron­to, Jan­u­ary 17, 2018

As an essen­tial part of The PROTECTION PLUS belief in giv­ing back to the com­mu­ni­ty, a neigh­bour­ing char­i­ty, the Sec­ond Har­vest Food Bank, was cho­sen to receive a Secu­ri­ty Sur­veil­lance Cam­era instal­la­tion at no charge. The Hon­ey­well cam­eras, com­pli­ments of Hon­ey­well Secu­ri­ty Cana­da, were installed and acti­vat­ed by the PROTECTION PLUS instal­la­tion team in May of 2017.

On Decem­ber 16, 2017, the Sec­ond Har­vest was the vic­tim of a rob­bery, where bat­ter­ies were stolen from their fleet of trucks. http://ow.ly/xE8x30hMTgJ. The thieves, how­ev­er, were caught on video by the sur­veil­lance cam­eras with clear and help­ful record­ed images and time­lines. The Toron­to Police now have much-need­ed evi­dence to appre­hend these crim­i­nals to pre­vent a recur­rence at Sec­ond Har­vest or anoth­er vul­ner­a­ble busi­ness.

Allan Baum, Pres­i­dent of PROTECTION PLUS, said. “Every year on the anniver­sary of our incor­po­ra­tion, we make a vol­un­teer our time, equip­ment and exper­tise in our com­mu­ni­ty as a way of giv­ing back. We are dis­ap­point­ed that any­one would tar­get a char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion like Sec­ond Har­vest. But we are pleased that the video images pro­vide the Toron­to Police with a much bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ty to make an arrest and stop these per­pe­tra­tors from fur­ther crim­i­nal activ­i­ty.”

Please con­tin­ue to sup­port your local char­i­ties like the Sec­ond Har­vest Food Bank www.secondharvest.ca.

For more infor­ma­tion, please feel free to con­tact us at info@protectionplus.ca

PROTECTION PLUS Volunteer Day 2017

May 26, 2017

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In a friend­ly, but sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenge to the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, PROTECTION PLUS has issued a chal­lenge to oth­er busi­ness­es, large and small, to use their incor­po­ra­tion date as an annu­al “Vol­un­teer Day.” What bet­ter way to mark the anniver­sary of busi­ness incor­po­ra­tion than to give back to the com­mu­ni­ty that made suc­cess pos­si­ble in the first place!

On Fri­day, May 26th, PROTECTION PLUS will mark its’ 23rd year in busi­ness by vol­un­teer­ing at Sec­ond Har­vest Food Bank in Toron­to. On Fri­day after­noon, all staff from PROTECTION PLUS will work with the Sec­ond Har­vest to sort, pack, and load food that is incom­ing and out­go­ing. In addi­tion to the pro­vi­sion of labour to assist in the dai­ly chal­lenges of run­ning a Food Bank, PROTECTION PLUS will install a sur­veil­lance cam­era sys­tem for Sec­ond Har­vest. Hon­ey­well Secu­ri­ty Cana­da has gra­cious­ly donat­ed the cam­era and NVR hard­ware for this project, and PROTECTION PLUS is donat­ing the exper­tise and time of its’ instal­la­tion team. By Fri­day evening, Sec­ond Har­vest will be a more secure facil­i­ty!

Sec­ond Har­vest Food Bank is a fan­tas­tic orga­ni­za­tion. It is the most exten­sive food res­cue pro­gram in Cana­da. Since 1985, Sec­ond Har­vest has been pick­ing up donat­ed, sur­plus food, which would oth­er­wise go to waste, and deliv­er­ing that food to com­mu­ni­ty agen­cies in Toron­to. Cur­rent­ly, Sec­ond Har­vest pro­vides res­cued food to over 225 social ser­vice agen­cies. If you want to vol­un­teer with them you can learn more http://www.secondharvest.ca/.

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Feb 28, 2017

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TORONTO, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2017: PROTECTION PLUS is pleased to announce that it has been hon­oured with a Home­S­tars Best of 2017 Award cel­e­brat­ing its com­mit­ment to qual­i­ty work and ser­vice. The awards event took place in Durham as well as four oth­er major cities across Cana­da.

“To be rec­og­nized with a Home­S­tars Best of Award is a great accom­plish­ment and we are proud of this hon­our,” says Allan Baum, PROTECTION PLUS. “We always strive to improve our ser­vice and hope to win this award again in the years to come.”

Best of Award win­ners are the top per­form­ers on the Home­S­tars, rang­ing from inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors to larg­er retail­ers. Win­ners are select­ed using sev­er­al cri­te­ria, includ­ing home­own­er reviews as well as their respon­sive­ness to home­own­ers.

“To win one of these awards is real­ly a tes­ta­ment to a contractor’s qual­i­ty of work,” says Nan­cy Peter­son, Founder and CEO of Home­S­tars. “We like to think of them as our own People’s Choice Awards since they are based on the reviews writ­ten by home­own­ers.”