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ProTec Services honored with GE Security award

ProTec Services, which provides security and other home services in North and South Carolina, has received GE’s 2007 Award for Most Innovative Use of GE Security Video & Access Control. Presented by GE Security District Manager Scott Crider, the award is a prestigious acknowledgement, with competition from security companies throughout the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.

ProTec Services provided its parent company, Laurens Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Laurens, SC with a GE access control system with digital video surveillance and alarm monitoring.

With the ongoing rise in copper prices, Laurens Electric Cooperative was continuously targeted by copper thieves, resulting in thousands of dollars in losses in copper cabling. After installation of the access control system with digital video surveillance, an intruder was recorded stealing copper at the co-op’s main office, and shortly apprehended and prosecuted on the basis of the video evidence. Since then the co-op has caught and prosecuted ten other individuals and reported no loss of material or equipment.

ProTec’s innovative and versatile use of GE’s access control system with digital video surveillance saved the cooperative potentially thousands of dollars in losses, and earned ProTec Services GE’s 2007 Award for Most Innovative Use of GE Security Video & Access Control.

ProTec Services is a department of Laurens Electric Cooperative, a member-owned, non-profit electric distribution provider serving more than 50,000 member-owners in seven counties in Upstate South Carolina since 1939. ProTec, established in 1994, services over 10,000 customers across the state, and offers Surge Protection and 24-Hour Appliance Protection in addition to Home Security.

Home Security
The ProTec Home Security System can detect unauthorized entry, motion within rooms, quickly rising and falling temperatures, the presence of carbon monoxide, and more. Easy to operate, this system is monitored 24 hours a day by the Alarm Monitoring Center of South Carolina.

ProTec™ Services Surge Protection
Many of the appliances and electronic equipment you use everyday can be severely damaged by even the slightest surge in electricity.

24 Hour Appliance/HVAC Protection
As a member of ProTec Service's 24 - Hour Appliance Repair Program, you are relieved of expensive repair bills, delays in getting service, and the frustration of having to do the work yourself.

LifeGard
Protect yourself and those you love most with ProTec's LifeGard^TM Personal Emergency Response System. This easy-to-use, yet high-tech system is the ideal solution for people with medical problems. LifeGard will allow you to remain independent - without fear - knowing that help is just the push of a button away.