When a thief rammed through the wall of Leroy Reber’s business, at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, the alarm company sent an alert to his cell phone.
Reber, the owner of DFW Wholesale Security and Electronics, dragged himself out of bed and checked the surveillance cameras from his home computer.
A surveillance expert, Reber, has 36 cameras watching every inch of his 1,000 square foot shop.
“I saw a vehicle backing in,” he said. When Reber dialed 911, though, an operator told him there was nothing police could do.
“They said, ‘Are you at the store?’ I said,’No, I’m at home, watching it.’ They said, ‘Well, we’re not pulling up a valid permit for this address, so we can’t dispatch. And I said, ‘But there’s a break in going on right now. ‘ And they said, ‘But we’re not allowed to dispatch’,”
