Redmond store is one stop shop for security needs
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, September 18, 2019
- (Geoff Folsom/Spokesman photos)Steve Meyer’s businesses, Cascade Security Solutions, offer security guards, security systems, supplies and alarm systems (above).
One business has led to another and, now, another for a retired law enforcement officer.
Steve Meyer and his wife, Sue, initially started Cascade Security Inc., which provides armed and unarmed security guards to various events. It has grown to having 15 guards.
Meyer then found that customers wanted to be able to buy cameras, alarms and intrusion systems, so he started Cascade Security Solutions. He then found the need for another business.
“As we added security officers, people wanted to know where they could buy supplies,” Steve Meyer said.
Meyer said the only places to buy security supplies like uniforms, boots and holsters were online or on the other side of the Cascades. So, earlier this year, he started Central Oregon Public Safety Supply in a former Radio Shack at 2498 S Highway 97, Suite G, in Redmond. He also moved his other businesses there from their former location near Redmond Municipal Airport.
“We saw an opportunity to fill a need,” Meyer said.
The store also sells items like belts, flashlights and shooting range targets.
Meyer started in law enforcement more than 40 years ago with the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office, before moving to Arizona to work in nuclear power security in the 1980s. He eventually retired to Oregon and started working in security consulting and private security.
While police departments often provide their own uniforms for officers, Meyer said his store often sells police items that they might need on the fly, like a ticket book cover.
Central Oregon Public Safety Supply also partners with a seamstress so any name or security company can be printed on the uniforms it sells.
The store also sells security systems for homes or small offices, and offers state certified training, both initial and refresher courses, for security officers, Meyer said.
“We’re a place to come for personal safety and security items and maybe some advice if they need it,” Meyer said. “There’s a lot out there on the internet and not all of it is all it’s cracked up to be.”
— Reporter: 541-548-2186, gfolsom@redmondspokesman.com
