Industrial yard security in Ajax

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Warehousing and manufacturing along the 401

Ajax grew out of a wartime munitions plant, and industry still shapes it. The Town's economic development office calls logistics, warehousing and storage its fastest-growing sector and advanced manufacturing its historic strength, with about 3,500 jobs in aerospace, automotive and automation. Highway 401 cuts across the town with interchanges at Westney Road and Salem Road, Highways 412 and 407 are close by, CN and CP rail lines serve the area, and the Queenston-Lewiston border crossing is about 172 km away.

Durham police files show what Ajax yards deal with. On a June 2026 evening, officers found a man inside a recycling yard on Dowty Road after more than $45,000 in scrap metal had gone missing, and police said he had stolen from the business several times before. A month earlier, four people were arrested after a break-in at a secured sea container near Commercial Avenue and Hunt Street, with break-in tools among the items police found. Containers, metal stock and parked equipment invite repeat visits when nobody is watching.

Repeat thefts are where live monitoring pays off. Once Sigma's technicians have cameras and speakers covering an Ajax yard, every after-hours detection goes to an agent who sees it in real time, warns the person off through the speakers and brings in Durham police with the video if they keep going. Each visit is recorded and reported, so a pattern shows up in your incident reports long before it shows up in an inventory count.

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