What Police Like - by Carla Base
Security Systems include different components, but in
short, a combination panel and keypad, which should always be placed after a
person has entered and walked through the home past sensors, and then the
sensors themselves will be for detecting breaking of glass or lifting of
windows, or both, as well as motion sensors that sound when something of a set
weight passes by it. If your home is armed and you are not at home and someone
walks into a room with such a sensor, it goes off, signaling the control panel
to call first numbers you have specified. It may call a woman first, then her
husband, then the police or however you'd like it set up. It can call you and
no police. It can call the police only. It can call the occupants on their cell
phones and police and the alarm company to know what is going on. This is all
up to our customers. Some fear monitoring at all, but the truth is, monitoring
can be done differently. It can call you first, then the police if you decide
only. Or, it can only call you. You would not want to "go check it out
yourself," however because a thief in a home in the act is not someone you
want to expose your life to. Instead, as a protection measure, if you know you
are not home, and a relative in town will be, have it set to call you first,
then that person, then police. You an opt to set it only to call yourself and
another person. Monitored systems generally save a percentage of money on your
Homeowners insurance, so be sure to ask and they may require a certificate of
proof from your alarm company.
There is also
another type of monitoring that is really gaining poularity among people and
especially with police! This is the video verification. With this, your cameras
that you view on your monitor can also be quickly edited and given to police.
If a break-in occurs and your monitoring station sends police, they can view
what your cameras view and see that a crime is in progress. This brings police
quickly because they already know it is no false alarm! When the verifier at
the monitoring station states it is in progress, the police are dispatched to
catch the criminals in the act. From there, the station is able to give the
police an immediate film clip of the event that is suitable in court to stop
the criminals from denying the truth. Seen in the act, they are caught red
handed. Your items may never leave the house before police seize them and jail
them. Either way, they are seen clearly and identified and police will know who
they are looking for. When or if they see them again in another section of your
neighborhood, they will have two convictions instead of one. They love using
this new tool and recommend it to people thinking about installing alarm
systems and having monitoring. Whereas some monitoring used to irritate police
in the past with false alarms, these video verifications thrill police because
they are just the opposite! They see what is happening and can often stop the
action and police can cart away the criminals, asking the monitoring station to
send them an immediate email of the film clip that proves the guilt of the
thief.
Give us a call
today. We have excellent cameras and technicians to install them. We can
monitor your system and we can monitor your video as well. We can hook up your
cameras to your iphone and ipad and you can have cameras indoors or outdoors or
both. This is what will catch a criminal--not some hope or vague description or
possibility they will pawn your heirlooms and be caught. Thousands of cases
every year cannot be solved, but when you have a moving video of the crime and
snapshot of the perpetrator, you have a chance at recovering everything and
stopping the thief.