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

Outdoor Motion Detectors stop trespassers becoming burglars

When used with Visonic’s PowerMax^® advanced home security system (which we install), the TOWER-20AM MCW wireless outdoor detector provides a complete solution for the protection of the house, inside and out.


Due to the unique patented technologies employed, it is the first detector to prevent false alarms caused by outdoor interferences, such as rain, snow, lightning storms, swaying bushes and free-roaming animals, while still providing reliable detection of real threats.


By reducing those nuisance alarms and vandal-resistant design, it delivers unprecedented resistance to environmental interference and vandalism.  


Call now to discuss how a trespasser in the garden can be deterred from becoming a burglar!

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

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.

Alarm Verification Without Wires

For police to respond to an alarm, they need to be sure that there is a crime in progress. An effective way to do this is with pictures of what happened when the alarm was activated. With verification, Police will treat these alarms as “Crimes in Progress” and respond faster than for a "bell on the wall" alarm. Video verification makes efficient use of both security guards and police officers and provides greater security to the property owner. However, this can be a bit tricky when mains power is unavailable.
A system providing TOTALLY wireless, BATTERY powered video security, that can be placed anywhere and sends a 10 sec video of what caused the alarm to an alarm receiving centre, security company or phone is available here
An absolute must for empty properties, buildings without power, construction sites, church roofs etc. Thieves have now lost the luxury of time and anonymity