RE: Re: Major panic last night

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Many moons ago whilst working on a phone line at a jewellers I accidently
snapped the wire off. The jewellers alarm panel was connected to a Telecom
RED ABC system which is continually monitored and loss of signal raises a
line break alarm.

ABC can send a number of Zoned alarms including Personal Attack, Fire etc
but both the Police and Fire authorities are supposed to respond
immediately
to a line break as it can indicate a burglar cutting the wire prior to
breaking in or a fire causing loss of phone service.

So, having broken the wire off this caused the line break and I expected
Plod to burst through the door any minute. The "minute" was
actually the
45th one, which had it been a proper robbery they would have been miles
away
by then.

They can respond quickly as I found out when I set off the alarm at a
Pharmacutical Wholesalers. I rang my control to tell them I had accidently
set it off. They picked up the dedicated "Hotline" to Police HQ
who accepted
that it was a false alarm and they wouldnt send anyone. I told my control
that the "False Alarm" message didnt seem to have got through to
the THREE
police cars that had just screamed into the car park!!!!

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 June 2003 19:18
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Major panic last night
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon"
<paul_gordon@h...> wrote:
> > >Mr Plod doesnt like alarms.
> > >
> >
> > /mode=Cynic, Value=on
> >
> > Of course not, they can't make any money from it, by fining
you...
>
> Except of course, there is charge for Mr Plod to issue a URN for your
> system.  Not quite a fine, but it still is a net influx of dosh from
> outside of the Plodarium into the Plodarium :-)
>