While DIY or Do-It-Yourself camera systems have gained in popularity, deployment of a video surveillance system should be carefully designed and thought out. Most DIY systems do not offer the option of monitoring by trained professionals when an event arises which requires local law enforcement. Professionally installed video surveillance systems should include 24-hour system health maintenance on the devices attached to the system (nothing worse than needing a video only to find out the system stopped recording several days ago!). Professionally installed systems provide the proper “chain of custody” in the event of evidence submission to local law enforcement.  SentriForce handles the system from “end-to-end”, with our dedicated R&D team, sales and installation employees, our own and locally operated Central Station and highly trained forensic video retrieval/review team.