Bells
Only
Are the most popular but the least effective; all that
happens is should the alarm be triggered is a bell or siren goes off. Recent changes
to legislation now prevents bells only alarms from sounding for more than 15 minutes
and the local council can levy heave fines for noise pollution should they sound
for longer.
Police
Response
Police response alarms are becoming less popular as
it has been found that the police can rarely attend in a meaningful timeframe.
All UK based monitoring stations have 3 minutes to verify if an activation has
been accidental or not, over 98% of them are. These 3 minutes also includes calling
the Keyholders and asking them to attend. Lastly the monitoring station calls
the police. The Police respond to calls from monitoring stations in different
ways depending on the Police region you live in. But as an average the Police
target to respond to calls from monitoring stations within 1 hour and only if
resources are available
Keyholder
Response
Keyholder monitored security is by far the most practical
form of electronic security available today. Your Browns Security & Care system
is connected to the monitoring station via your telephone line, if activated it
send a signal to the monitoring station who contact your home within seconds.
If no answer or an incorrect answer is given to the security questions then we
call your Keyholders. Any would be burglar has no idea if your Keyholder lives
next door or across the road. This means that as far as they're concerned someone
could be on the spot in seconds. Clearly this is not always the case and we would
never ask someone to go into a potentially risky situation but the burglar doesn't
know this and therefore moves onto a softer target.
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