RE: Major panic last night

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

It does make you wonder what's the point in having a fancy alarm system if
the police won't come out. Did they give any reasons for not responding ?
I'm currently considering an alarm, but it seems overkill if Mr Plod will
stay at home drinking tea whilst it rings.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 June 2003 09:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Major panic last night
>
>
> Last night I was about an hour away from home watching SWIMBO’s
> Primary School production (which was actually very good!) – Oh,
> and SWMBO is the deputy head – not one of the kids!!!. In the
> middle, my alarm (Comfort) rang my mobile to tell me my house was
> being broken into!
>
> Listening to the alarm history told me that the hall and then
> kitchen sensor had triggered close together. My dog was closed up
> in the kitchen but I did wonder if she’d managed to get into
the
> hall and trigger the alarm (no other sensors had been triggered).
> I phoned the police but even though two separate sensors had been
> triggered, they weren’t interested but asked me to phone them
> back when I’d found out what it was (and no doubt caught any
> intruder myself!). Rushed back to the house to find all was well
> and no sign of the dog having escaped (all door firmly shut).
> Very odd – not sure what could have caused both PIR’s to
trigger
> especially as we haven’t had a false alarm in the year
Comfort’s
> been installed.
>
> This kind of incident brings several things home –
>
> 1)	It’s very frustrating not to have more info on what’s
going
> on (still pictures to the phone would be good)
> 2)	Comfort’s alarm log is good but it would be better if it
> collated the entries and presented them in a more understandable
> way i.e. “hall PIR triggered, five seconds later kitchen PIR
> triggered, five minutes later and no further activations” etc.
> I’m sure this can be done with a bit of scripting and ACE?
> 3)	SMS text with details would have been good – how can I do
this?
> 4)	It’s all very well having a sophisticated alarm system but
> unless you understand the alarm history entries in detail, you
> can’t be sure what’s actually going on.
> 5)	Having a plan for this kind of event is critical
> (especially when the Police aren’t interested)
>
> Any ideas on how to achieve these would be good.
>
> Paul.
>
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