-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, I8OsEXydPP4J/LAryL269NY3LiVyNKcejR58hECX4gHyR9xWew0cepS7ndJMM9FY ZgLzoAFYZe+o6/TVc99w9Q== 0001104659-07-025892.txt : 20070404 0001104659-07-025892.hdr.sgml : 20070404 20070404181404 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-07-025892 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070402 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070404 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070404 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Russo Thomas J CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001395410 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12181-01 FILM NUMBER: 07750076 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 972 916-6154 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PROTECTION ONE, INC. STREET 2: 4221 W. JOHN CARPENTER FREEWAY CITY: IRVING STATE: TX ZIP: 75063 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PROTECTION ONE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000916230 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS SERVICES [7380] IRS NUMBER: 931063818 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1035 N. 3RD ST. STREET 2: SUITE 101 CITY: LAWRENCE STATE: KS ZIP: 66044 BUSINESS PHONE: 785 856 5500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1035 N. 3RD ST. STREET 2: SUITE 101 CITY: LAWRENCE STATE: KS ZIP: 66044 3 1 a3.xml 3 X0202 3 2007-04-02 1 0000916230 PROTECTION ONE INC PONE 0001395410 Russo Thomas J C/O PROTECTION ONE, INC. 1035 N. 3RD ST., SUITE 101 LAWRENCE KS 66044 1 0 0 0 Exhibit 24.1 Power of Attorney /s/ J. Eric Griffin, under power of attorney 2007-04-03 EX-24.1 2 ex-24d1.htm EX-24.1

Exhibit 24.1

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints each of J. Eric Griffin and Eric A. Devin, signing singly, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, pla ce and stead of the undersigned to:

 

(1)           prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of Protection One, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchanges and the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the “Exchange Act”);

 

(2)           seek or obtain, as the undersigned’s representative and on the undersigned’s behalf, information on transactions in the Company’s securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and

 

(3)           perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such attorneys-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.

 

The undersigned acknowledges that:

 

(1)           this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each such attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to such attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;

 

(2)     & #160;     any documents prepared and/or executed by either attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

 

(3)           neither the Company nor either attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the undersigned’s responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

 

(4)           this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned’s obligations under the Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 


 

The undersigned hereby gives and grants each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, of, for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

 

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to both such attorneys-in-fact.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 2nd day of April 2007.

 

 

/s/ Thomas J. Russo

 

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