Construction sites are prime targets for theft, there are thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment and material at each location and cannot be manned 24/7. In the past, if a thief was not caught in the act of stealing, there is little to no chance of your item being recovered or the person being caught. Many contractors put cameras up on their sites, but even that only increases your odds of recovery slightly.
One Oklahoma City home builder was recently fed up with a string of robberies on his job sites, so he decided to do something about it. Though he already had cameras set up, Pete Jackson, of Stonewall Builders, took site security a step further and put a GPS tracker on an air compressor, which was then stolen soon after. Because of the device, the local police were able to track the location, find the criminal and charge him or her with a crime. Jackson also got his expensive piece of equipment back. Read the full story and see the video by clicking the link below.
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Theft is a big problem on job sites and it’s next to impossible to lock up and secure all of the valuable items on a job site at all times. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), there’s about a billion dollars worth of theft each year in the construction industry alone. ONE BILLION. That’s a lot of money to just be walking off of the job site.