Re: Commercial Alarm - help

["Al Colombo" <securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that most people do not realize that each one of us is pretty
much on our own in a home invasion situation.  The police are almost
entirely reactive instead of proactive.  Although alarm systems do
fail, they also do keep people on the know when someone has entered
their home--someone who shouldn't be there.

I don't know what kind of alarm system you have in your home, but I've
had the same  hybrid wireless/hardwire alarm system in my home for the
past 10 years.  It's not a high-end system by any means, but if I have
one false alarm per year, I'm lucky.  Although the police will take 15
min. or more to get here, if I'm home at 3 a.m. and someone breaks into
this home, I know it.  My handy 12 ga. will be ready to greet them.

I also have cameras, which can do nothing whatsoever to warn me of an
incoming perp.  In this case, the police can view my killer after I'm
gone.  That's all they'll do for me.  Now, that's putting yourself in a
client's shoes.

I think most of us in the alarm industry fail to realize that the first
order of business is "Crime Prevention," and that means alerting 1) the
homeowner that someone's in the house who should not be there, 2) to
frighten the perp off, and 3) to alert as many other people as possible
of the pending situation, and that includes the neighbors and the PD
via the central station.

Al



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