Mark,

You wrote:
"I di not file a poloice report. It was 300.00 and insurance deductable is 5000.00 so no need for ins. co. and a broken window is never going to have a detective assigned. Why waste the poloice dept's time and mine. We have a tape of the incident but it does not show the outside."

When a security device in my business or home detects a breach, the company that monitors my alarm systems tries to get ahold of me first, and if I'm not available they call a couple other people that I have listed with them who would know if the breach is more likely a system malfunction or mistake made by someone who is supposed to be on the property.

If the breach is triggered by an internal motion sensor, and the location of the particular sensor would make triggering it without triggering some other device before reaching it almost impossible, I (or my associates) will tell the monitoring company to have the local police do a "check and clear" and if they find no visual evidence of entry into the property, it isn't considered an emergency. It with be taken care of, but it doesn't always require immediate attention.

A security breach detected by a glass-break sensor will have the police on the scene every time, and I want them there before I'd ever get close to the property.

Either you don't take such a breach as seriously as I do, your stores don't have active monitoring, or you aren't being quite as upfront as you could be about the involvement of local law enforcement. ...or you just needed a broken window replaced.

Bob