Is Your Business Located in One of Canada’s Most Dangerous Cities?

Every year, crime rates across Canada fluctuate, but one thing remains constant, businesses are a primary target.

The 2024 Crime Severity Index (CSI) has identified the top 20 dangerous cities in Canada based on crime rates. If your business is in one of the country’s most crime-prone cities, security is no longer optional, it’s essential. 

Surprisingly, the top 10 spots are all filled by cities in Western Canada.

1. Kamloops, British Columbia
2. Chilliwack, British Columbia
3. Red Deer, Alberta
4. Winnipeg, Manitoba
5. Lethbridge, Alberta
6. Nanaimo, British Columbia
7. Kelowna, British Columbia
8. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
9. Regina, Saskatchewan
10. Abbotsford–Mission, British Columbia
11. Edmonton, Alberta
12. Moncton, New Brunswick
13. Thunder Bay, Ontario
14. Vancouver, British Columbia
15. Fredericton, New Brunswick
16. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
17. Victoria, British Columbia
18. Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, Ontario
19. Drummondville, Quebec
20. Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Why You Need to Make Business Security Your Priority

If you were not considering your company’s security strategy before, these stats will surely have you considering one now, regardless of whether the city you are in has made the top of Canada’s least safe locales.

Not only will it keep your property and valuable information protected when your place of business is unattended. It will help your staff feel safe when they return to work and work more effectively, knowing that there is a security system in place to watch over them.

And, when you opt for a verified security system, you can feel confident that your place of business is being monitored 24/7 by trained professionals who will alert authorities as soon as something suspicious is detected.

Why Sonitrol is the Only Way to Protect Your Business

At Sonitrol Western Canada, we offer verified security solutions that even professional criminals avoid. This is because they know the authenticity of a Sonitrol alarm is verified by live operators and trusted by police authorities across North America, giving them little time to escape, if any, when the police respond to our alarms.

Why? Because the average response time for a Sonitrol alarm is 3.5 minutes.

And, for those who are not aware of what the Sonitrol name represents and do attempt to commit a crime on your property, this response time, along with real-time updates from our security operators means there is a greater chance that the criminal will be apprehended.

When a break-in happens, you don’t need footage, you need a fast police response. Here’s why Sonitrol’s verified security solutions are the only way to truly protect your business:

• Live Audio and Video Verification – Instead of waiting for someone to review footage, our trained security professionals verify threats in real time, ensuring immediate police response.
• Police Trust and Faster Response Times – False alarms waste law enforcement resources, but Sonitrol’s verified alarms are trusted, leading to priority police dispatch with an average response time of just 3.5 minutes.
• Criminal Apprehension, Not Just Recording Crime – Sonitrol’s solutions have led to 188,000+ criminal arrests. CCTV cameras don’t stop crime in progress, our verified systems do.

It’s time to protect your business before it’s too late. Contact Sonitrol Western Canada today for a free security plan and discover how verified security can provide real protection, not just footage of what went wrong.