Better Together: How LPRs and Mobile Security Trailers Strengthen Security Across Your Commercial Properties

Being proactive is a necessity in today’s security landscape. Organized retail crime and shoplifting have been on the rise, reaching a point where they're negatively impacting foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores. Retailers have also had to invest in employee training to prepare for potential workplace violence that often accompanies organized retail crime.

Flock Safety’s license plate readers (LPRs) and mobile security trailers create a highly visible and effective crime deterrent that signals to bad actors that they’re being watched. They also provide actionable evidence to security/ law enforcement in the event of an incident.

License plate readers and mobile security trailers are also integratable with one another and both feed into the Flock dashboard, giving you and your team centralized access to footage, alerts, and search capabilities.  

Individually, they’re powerful. But together, they make your property impenetrable.   

Seamlessly Integrate Mobile Security Trailers with LPR Cameras

Flock’s LPRs easily integrate with mobile security trailers to link vehicle data to video evidence. This move enables businesses to move beyond just visual deterrence, and to also provide actionable intelligence that both security teams and law enforcement can utilize to expedite case closure.

LPRs and mobile security trailers work in tandem to deliver both deterrence and actionable evidence to gain more visibility into incidents, reduce response times, and access stronger evidence when it’s needed. 

License Plate Readers (LPRs): Actionable Evidence When You Need It Most

Flock’s LPR cameras are installed at vehicle entry and exit points to capture high-resolution images of the back of every car that passes through. These cameras don’t just read plates, they use Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology to identify make, color, and other unique features, even if a plate is missing or obscured.

Key Benefits:

• Automatically logs every vehicle that enters/exits
  
  
• Sends real-time alerts for wanted or suspicious vehicles
  
  
• Provides searchable data/ evidence to support investigations and close cases faster
  
  
• Helps identify patterns such as repeat visits by the same vehicle
   
• Offers access to the largest fixed LPR network with billions of monthly reads
   
• Quick deployment with low maintenance

Mobile Security Trailers: Your On-Demand Crime Deterrent

Flock’s solar-powered mobile security trailers are equipped with high-definition video surveillance to serve as a deterrent to repeat offenders, after-hours crime, and to monitor areas inside your property where fixed infrastructure isn’t available or practical. 

Whether you’re covering a parking lot, construction zone, or remote corner, mobile security trailers provide a mobile form of crime deterrence for various situations.

Key Benefits:

• Rapid deployment without wiring or trenching
  
  
• Designed for law enforcement and businesses to coordinate faster and more efficiently
  
  
• 24/7 video coverage and protection of vulnerable areas
  
  
• Physical deterrent with flashing lights that lets criminals know they’re being watched
  
  
• Easily repositioned based on changing needs or threats
   
• Sends instant alerts whenever people or vehicles enter off-limit areas 
  

How Flock LPR and Mobile Security Trailers Integrate and Work Together for Maximum Crime Deterrence and Crime-Solving Capabilities‍

Integrating your mobile security trailers with LPRs allows you to maximize the potential of both of these security solutions by gaining access to numerous crime prevention abilities like:  

1. Linking Vehicle Data to Video Evidence

Integrating mobile security trailers with LPRs allows businesses to move beyond just visual deterrence, and provide actionable intelligence that security teams and police can leverage to close cases faster than before.

2. Centralized Intelligence‍

Even though they’re separate tools, both feed into the Flock Safety dashboard. Your team can review footage, respond to alerts, and track incidents, all from one place.

3.  Faster Response Times‍

When an incident occurs, you can match video from mobile security trailers with LPR vehicle data to build a timeline, identify suspects, and provide law enforcement with a full picture.

Mobile security trailers also come equipped with a talk-down speaker that allows you to address threats in real-time as they’re occurring.

Why They’re Better Together

Using LPRs and mobile security trailers together gives you a more complete security posture, both in terms of deterrence and response.

Here’s how they work in sync:

1. Maximum Deterrence

Organized crime groups, shoplifters, and other offenders often target locations that: 

• Lack visible deterrence (No visible cameras or security signage) 
• Experience understaffing at specific times (Lack proper coverage during afterhours and/ or unable to properly monitor customers) 
• Lack proper monitoring (There’s blind spots within stores or around perimeters) 
• Offer easy access to vehicles (No monitoring of license plates or vehicle movement) 

By utilizing the integration benefits of LPRs and mobile security trailers, retailers will directly gain the ability to:

• Deter repeat offenders with a large, visible mobile security trailer with flashing lights
• Makeup for understaffing during off-hours with security solutions that serve as extra help
• Strengthen their monitoring capabilities with extra eyes that can cover any areas that often go ignored 
• Provide adequate coverage of parking lots to capture any evidence of vehicle theft or other crime

Mobile security trailers integrated with license plate readers, coupled with clear signage showing that this area is monitored, provides adequate support to retailers looking to maximize their deterrence capabilities. 

2. Centralized Intelligence

Although mobile security trailers and license plate readers are separate tools, they both directly feed into the Flock Safety dashboard. This frees you and your team to review footage, respond to alerts, and track incidents, all from one place. 

3. Faster Response Times 

When an incident occurs, you can match video from mobile security trailers integrated with license plate readers to track vehicle data to build a timeline, identify suspects, and provide law enforcement with a full picture.

Use Cases for License Plate Readers and Mobile Security Trailers

There’s many scenarios in which Flock’s license plate readers and mobile security trailers can be implemented to maximize security initiatives and protocols for businesses. But these situations were chosen to highlight their particular effectiveness amongst retailers. 

For example, a neighborhood grocery store has been dealing with high-rates of theft that typically occur late at night when the store is understaffed and employees are preoccupied with closing down the store. 

These thefts have escalated to the point where an employee was assaulted one evening while trying to stop a shoplifter. To make it worse, they weren’t able to hold the shoplifter accountable because they never caught their license plate number as they drove away. 

As a result, the grocery store’s security team implements Flock license plate readers and mobile security trailers as per recommendation from their local law enforcement. 

License plate readers were set up around their premises, a mobile security trailer was deployed in their parking lot, and the mobile security trailer was also integrated with license plate reader cameras for a single, connected security ecosystem. 

A few days later, the grocery store was targeted by an organized retail theft ring that ran into the store, grabbed several expensive pieces of merchandise, and ran back out of the store before security was able to stop them.

Though, they used a getaway vehicle whose identifiable features were immediately captured thanks to the license plate readers that were attached to the mobile security trailer.

Although the getaway vehicle didn’t have a license plate, Flock’s cameras still caught enough information to convey to local law enforcement.

Police were then dispatched to locate the vehicle, and were able to arrest the shoplifters and eventually return the merchandise. 

Learn more about the real-world positive impact of Flock’s license plate cameras by reading this case study detailing how a supermarket was able to solve an organized retail crime case of $20k+ in stolen merchandise. 

The Bottom Line: License Plate Readers and Mobile Security Trailers Can Modernize Your Security and Proactively Address Crime 

Integrating license plate readers with mobile security trailers works to develop security initiatives that proactively deters offenders, offers actionable evidence to security teams/ law enforcement to help close cases, and directly feeds all relevant information directly into the Flock Safety dashboard.   

Want to learn more?

Watch our on-demand webinar on mobile security trailers to learn more regarding how they can enhance your security strategy, along with how they can be seamlessly integrated into your existing Flock LPR system. 

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