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COPS acquires wholesale monitoring business from Security Partners

June 9, 2021SSN Staff

WILLIAMSTOWN, N.J.—COPS Monitoring, a provider of wholesale professional alarm monitoring services in North America, announced that it has purchased the wholesale monitoring assets of Security Partners LLC at auction on May 27, 2021.  Upon completion of the acquisition and subsequent preparations, the alarm companies and their 100,000+ subscriber accounts will be migrated to COPS and monitored by its network of six UL listed and TMA Five Diamond certified monitoring stations located...

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General News

How I Use My System: Andy Stadler

September 5, 2018Spencer Ives

Andy Stadler, the East Region sales representative for Security Partners, has been with the company for over 10 years. His experience ranges from dispatch operator to dealer support. He then transitioned into sales to share his knowledge and experience with our dealers. In mid-August, he talked with Security Systems News about the home security system he uses.What kind of system do you have?I have a 2GIG GC from Nortek Security and Control.Why this particular setup?The 2GIG panel is really easy to...

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General News

Five Questions: Michael Ritt

February 21, 2018Spencer Ives

Michael Ritt started in the industry in 2005 at AlarmWatch. He was recently hired as Security Partners' director of dealer support in November 2017. In his new role, he oversees three of the company's sites—in Lancaster, Pa.; San Antonio, Texas; and Las Vegas. In college, he was a music major. In mid-January, Security Systems News asked Ritt five questions.What do you like about where you live?I used to live in Baltimore, and it was the city life. I live in a small town [in Pennsylvania, now];...

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Monitoring

Security Partners celebrates 20 years

February 6, 2018Spencer Ives

LANCASTER, Pa.—On Feb. 10, Security Partners marks 20 years in the wholesale monitoring space, and as it hits this milestone the company is making improvements and planning for a new, bigger headquarters based here.“We're pretty blessed. The founding was going to be a local, maybe Pennsylvania-based, mid-Atlantic-based, monitoring center and, of course, we've now grown to a nationwide center,” Patrick Egan, founder of Security Partners, told Security Systems News. He added that...

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Monitoring Matters

ADR Security and Security Partners form joint venture

August 16, 2017Spencer Ives

ADR Security, a full-service electronic and physical security provider based in New York City, on Aug. 11 announced a new business: ADR Security Monitoring, a joint venture with Security Partners that caters to the specific security needs of high-end jewelers in New York City. ADR Security services about 4,500 individual sites, offering intercom, intrusion, electronic access, video surveillance, fire and life safety, locksmith and AV cabling among other services. The business, by sales, is 90 percent...

ADR Security, Patrick Egan, Peter Goldring, Security Partners


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Security Partners names new president

June 12, 2017Spencer Ives

LANCASTER, Pa.—Security Partners, a wholesale monitoring company with four centers through the United States, today announced that Randy Hall will take over as the company's president.“This is a huge opportunity for us. Randy is an industry veteran,” Patrick Egan, Security Partners CEO, told Security Systems News. “[Hall] has been in the field and dealing with a significant dealer base in his past responsibilities and we're just excited to have him on board.”Most recently,...

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Wholesale monitoring company success: It's all about the dealer

September 16, 2016Spencer Ives

YARMOUTH, Maine—Wholesale monitoring centers use a variety of methods to grow their revenue and account bases, but dealer relations and support is the key to success, according to several executives who spoke to Security Systems News.Affiliated Monitoring's VP Daniel Oppenheim put it this way: “We are in a business, much like equipment manufacturers, where our success is dependent on the success of our dealers.”Third party central stations grow by adding more dealers or supporting...

Affiliated Monitoring, Centralarm, COPS Monitoring, Daniel Oppenheim, David Smith, Mike Bodnar, Scott Mailhot, Security Partners, Tim LeBlanc, TriStar Monitoring


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SecurityTrax increases integrations

August 31, 2016Spencer Ives

TYSONS, Va.—SecurityTrax, a cloud-based CRM offering from Alarm.com, integrated with four new monitoring centers recently. Jeff Hansen, president of SecurityTrax, said that its integrations set the SecurityTrax CRM apart from others. “The focus of SecurityTrax really is to provide a platform to our dealers so they can automate processes and to help them run their business more efficiently. � [What] is unique to the SecurityTrax offering is that we really have a full suite of robust...

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Security Partners helps dealers with funding

June 27, 2016Spencer Ives

LANCASTER, Pa.—Security Partners, a wholesale central station based here, announced a new funding program for its dealers.Mike Bodnar, president of Security Partners, told Security Systems News that the new program is a “vehicle that will allow our dealers to grow their RMR, build their business, and … maintain ownership of their accounts for the long term.”“We are able to fund 60-month subscriber agreements. There is an ability for continued funding on the account with...

Belmont Finance, Mike Bodnar, Rich Kosiec, Security Partners


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Monitoring companies foresee benefits from ADT/Protection 1 merger

March 9, 2016Spencer Ives

YARMOUTH, Maine—Monitoring companies have an opportunity to attract new business, new dealers and new employees in the wake of the planned ADT/Protection 1 merger, according to five leading monitoring companies who spoke to Security Systems News. “There's going to be a lot of really good people in this combined company that are not going to have a home in the long run or are going to find that they're not as happy as they might have been in the past,” John Cerasuolo,...

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