RE: Re: Major panic last night

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

Maybe you're lucky with your local police, but when you see our lot, they
generally don't seem to be bothered with stopping the minor things. I'm
sure
there's shed loads of good that they do, but perception and reality aren't
always the same :-)

In this case, I would have thought that as the house owner reported it
directly they should have at least driven past the door.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 June 2003 17:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Major panic last night
>
>
> > Mr Plod doesnt like alarms.
>
> ...and realistically, why should they?
>
> Rather than "sitting drinking tea" as one respondent put it,
the police
> spend their shifts doing a job fundamentally more important than
> troubleshooting someone's dodgy alarm system.
>
> The vast majority of times an alarm triggers, it is a false alarm. In
our
> housing development, we get an alarm going off every other day...
> Personally, I'm happier knowing that the police are not running
> around after
> these sorts of nuisances.
>
> Ultimately, my view is that if an alarm user is not prepared to pay
for an
> intamac style private monitoring service, then they should not be
> expecting
> the publicly funded Police force to provide the service for them
f.o.c.
>
> Ian.
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