SPOTLIGHT INVESTIGATIVE Meet the New IAIL President at ALOA 2022 achieve this knowledge. IAIL has taken this one discipline and turned it into a Certified Forensic Locksmith credential that zeros in on one of our most basic knowledge bases. Start on the path of turning your existing knowledge into a finely tuned profit center. W Hot Cases One of the hottest areas in case litigation right now is amputation of fingers with doors, frames and hardware. You may be asking yourself how this is possible. Easy — think about doors and frames out of alignment, door closer not adjusted properly and wrong hardware installed on the door for starters. All of this combined with unsupervised children equals a disaster waiting to happen. As locksmiths, we are taught the correct installation procedures for all hardware, or at the very least we read the installation instructions packaged with the product. If you’ve taken my life safety code class in the past 20 years, you might remember the cover on my manual with the two levers installed improperly. These were installed by installers who couldn’t read English and couldn’t figure out how to reverse the lever. These were not locksmiths! Now think about what I just wrote, and that is why we have so many cases involving improperly installed doors, frames and hardware. IAIL Meeting Our annual meeting will be held on Thursday, July 28 at 5:30 p.m. Check the on-site program for the location. I will be introducing our new president at 6 SAFE & VAULT TECHNOLOGY | July/August 2022 elcome to the ALOA Convention & Security Expo at the South Point Hotel & Casino, where education is the No. 1 priority for all lock- smiths. If you are thinking about obtaining your CFL credential in Architectural Hardware, Building and Fire Codes, this is the place to that meeting. You won’t want to miss meeting this exciting individual who will take over for me at the end of the ALOA Board meeting. If you would like any new certification requirements early, send me an email and I’ll reply with everything you need. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, please contact me at IAIL- [email protected]. Tom Resciniti Demont, AHC, CAI, CFDI, CFL, CMIL, CML, CFMST, ICML, IFDI, CFLSFDI, ARL, President, Inter- national Association of Investigative Locksmiths, [email protected] Get Published! IAIL member s: Submit your ar t i c les for the Inves tigative Spot light department . Send your information to Tom Demont at [email protected]. www.savta.org
