Video Verification

Would you like your alarm to be stand-alone and:-

• Tell you when it has been activated?
• Send a video to mobile phones (security guards for example) of the cause of activation?
• To work outdoors - building sites, farm yards, church roof?
• Operate when there is no mains power? 
• Save money - guard only called out if suspicious activity.

Well now you can - listen carefully

Protect from the outside in

More customers are looking for ways to detect unauthorised intruders before they break in or steal property.

This external wireless sensor is:

• Designed to eliminate false alarms
• Tolerant to moving trees, bushes, direct sunlight, car headlamps
• Animal friendly up to 18kg (thats a pretty big dog)
• Water resistant (IP65)
• Anti vandal design
• Anti masking (if covered by cloth or box)
• Can be set for night time only (burglars like the dark!)
• Works with most Visonic wireless systems
• Protects roofs from lead theft

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Squatting to be made illegal

The Alarming Man has completely stand alone equipment that can prevent squatting by immediately reporting intruders and videoing their activity.  Call now 08456387585 for details

Reported in The Daily Telegraph

The Justice Secretary is to make squatting illegal for the first time in England and Wales in a bid to end the menace of the home occupiers.

And those who still force their way in to empty properties will face a prison sentence.

The new law will end the “nightmare” of home owners having to fight lengthy legal battles in the courts in order to evict squatters.

Instead the police will be able to force entry and arrest anyone who has occupied a property.

There are an estimated 100,000 incidents of squatting every year with victims including Guy Ritchie, the film director.

A senior Whitehall source told The Daily Telegraph Mr Clarke has made changing the law a priority because he is sick of seeing cases of law-abiding people fighting to regain possession of their properties.

The source said: “Ken has had enough of seeing hard working home owners battle to squatters out.

“He is determined to use the full force of the law to save people from the nightmare of having to fight to get their houses back.

“The days of 'squatters’ rights' will be over.”

Squatting is not currently a criminal offence in England and Wales and instead it is up to the owners to use the civil courts to enforce their rights, which can turn in to lengthy and expensive legal battles.

They must also prove to the courts that they are either a ''displaced residential occupier'' – someone who has returned from holiday to find squatters in their house – or a ''protected intended occupier'', who is intending to move into an empty property.

In contrast, squatters are also protected by other laws, including the Criminal Law Act 1977, which prevents a home owner forcing their way back in because it makes it an offence to use violence to gain access when there is someone on the premises who is opposed to entry.

They can also take advantage of the controversial law on "adverse possession", which can allow someone who has occupied a building for 10 years to claim ownership of it.

One squatter group, known as The Really Free School, has occupied a series of properties in London, including a building in Bloomsbury Square belonging to an antiques expert and a £6 million house owned by Mr Ritchie. Then they took over an empty pub near Oxford Street before moving on to another near Leicester Square.

Earlier this year, businessman John Hamilton-Brown was reduced to begging through his own letterbox for squatters to leave his £1 million home.

In 2009 squatters moved into David Blunkett's former grace and favour mansion in central London while others took over a £33 million house close to Nigella Lawson's home in Eaton Square, central London.

Officials are now drawing up plans to such property invasions illegal with a likely maximum penalty of a custodial sentence.

Squatting is already a criminal offence in Scotland and someone guilty of it could be sentenced to 21 days in jail.

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor at The Daily Telegraph  6:30AM GMT 18 Mar 2011

London Jeweller ‘Smash and Grab’ Robbery Foiled by Fog Bandit

‘Smash and Grab’ Robbery Foiled by Fog Bandit

On Wednesday 26^th January, late in the afternoon, raiders forced their way into Lombard Jewellers, a Jewellery retail shop in Islington, London. Jewellery display cabinets within the prestigious shop were targeted.

Almost immediately, the vigilant staff initiated the high speed security Fog Bandit which in just two seconds projected a 6 metre blanket of visually impenetrable yet harmless fog down the shop, screening the targeted display cabinets and forcing the raiders to turn and flee the shop, minimising the stock loss, shop damage and trauma to staff.

Michael Saunders, Director, Lombard Jewellers, explains;

“The Fog Bandit and its voice warning announcer did its’ job in quickly driving the raiders out of the shop, restricting the time and opportunity for the raiders to target the jewellery and limiting the staff exposure to this frightening experience”.

David Cole of The Alarming Man agrees with the comments of Neil Chrismas, Sales and Marketing Director, Bandit UK Ltd who added;

“The Bandit UK Team applaud the Lombard Jewellers staff for acting promptly in initiating the Fog Bandit and forcing the raiders to leave the shop. This is another example of the clear deterrent message to the criminal fraternity that targeting Jewellers with a Fog Bandit system installed in a fruitless exercise and heightens the likelihood of being caught”.

Copper prices push cable thefts to new high

If, like Network Rail you are suffering the highest ever levels of copper theft - mostly signalling cables running alongside tracks in their case. (see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/rail_copper_thefts/ ) or from metal theft in general, read on.

Lead and copper thefts have waxed and waned but with the current high price of precious metals, thieves have taken £35m worth of copper from Network Rail since 2006.

To stop this happening to you, consider installing movement sensors that incoprate a video camera that shows the reason for the alarm activation, immediately informs an alarm receiving centre who verifies that the cause is criminal and informs appropriate personnel/police.

The whole system (up to 20 combined PIR's/cameras) is run from batteries with a typical 4 year life. Completely stand alone and portable the equipment can be moved to where the hot spots are within minutes.

Contact us for more information.

Access Control

We are pleased to announce that we are now approved installers of Paxton door access control systems and have successfully completed installations for a sheltered housing complex in Romiley and a disaster recovery suite in Warrington. 

Paxton Access specialises in the manufacture of access control systems. Access control provides security by giving flexible control over who is allowed to enter a building and when. The systems will keep your buildings, staff and assets secure. From one door up to hundreds of doors across multiple sites, we have a solution to suit your needs.

Is site security draining your profits?

A big cost associated with site security is the guard.

The problem with guards is that they are often creatures of habit and thieves plan accordingly.

An inexpensive system is available that informs static or mobile guards of suspicious activity, allowing them to be far more efficient.

For more information contact David Cole on 08456387585

Attack on a building site container