RE: Major panic last night

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

My money's on the dog having a wicked sense of humour, opening the door,
wagging it's tail at the PIR, closing the door and then playing dumb when
you got home :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 June 2003 10:19
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Major panic last night
>
>
> I can understand their reasons although it doesn't make it any
> easier - they do get a lot of false alarm calls. Although I did
> get two sensors going off - having a chat with a enquiry desk
> plod later, he said that if there were multiple activations, they
> would attend.
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 27 June 2003 10:13
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Major panic last night
> >
> > 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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