May 24th, 2010 by chris
We provide monitored alarms to 1000’s of small businesses across the UK. So it’s always nice when we get great feedback from our clients telling us how our alarm monitoring is saving them money and (in some cases) lives!
A couple of weeks back one of our clients shared a story with us of how their shop had been broken into late at night. The burglars smashed their way into said shop, and seconds later – as our alarm monitoring kicked in – we challenged them verbally over the system, and shocked at being talked to (in the dark!) they ran off empty-handed.
No that’s the kind of reaction we like! And importantly, that’s the kind of reaction no other alarm system has – as our interactive alarm monitoring is a great way of scaring off burglars.
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Tags: monitored alarm, small business alarm, small business security
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April 10th, 2010 by chris
Some good news! We’ve just slashed the prices of our monitored CCTV systems by over £200, from £995+VAT to £765+VAT. The reason? Well, as always we like to pass all our savings directly onto our clients, and thanks to some great bargaining by our lead buyer we’ve recently cut some great deals with our suppliers in the Far East which means we can significantly cut our costs.
The great thing about the technology market these days is that it’s become massively competitive and massively efficient. This means that prices are constantly being lowered.
And true to our mission to provide the “best security at the lowest prices” we can pass these savings on to our clients – making everyone happy – apart from maybe our Far Eastern suppliers ; – )
Tags: cctv discount, cctv price cut, monitored cctv system
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April 7th, 2010 by chris
Last night we’re pleased to report our super AMCO monitored alarm systems stopped more unwitting burglars from burgling one of our customers in North London. Against all odds I have to say! As in our customers sleep-induced-stuper, when the alarm was activated and we challenged him via the speaker unit in his house, he gave the all clear and said everything was OK (without checking) – even though someone had broken in downstairs.
Anyway, our verbal challenge seemed to work – and scared off the would-be burglar. As the next day, when our customer came down to his kitchen he discovered a broken window, signs of initial entry BUT more importantly signs of immediate and quick exit – as they obviously legged in once they heard our AMCO alarm activated.
Job done! 1-0. 1 to AMCO. 0 to the burglar.
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April 6th, 2010 by chris
We’re pleased to announce, we’ve re-launched our £1000 reward scheme for all our monitored alarm customers. This means that if any of our customers get broken into, we will offer a £1000 reward for information leading to a burglars arrest and imprisonment.
We’re always looking at new ways of making sure our customers are the best protected, and we think that this £1000 reward – together with our WARNING STICKERS – will provide a further deterrence for any would-be burglars.
See the new warning stickers together with reward!
Tags: burglar deterrence, burglar reward, high security, £1000 reward
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April 3rd, 2010 by chris
We’ve been doing some analysis of our burglar alarm false alarm statistics in the last week, and we’ve discovered something really interesting.
According to national ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) statistics, the average number of police calls to false alarms is 89% of all alarms. A huge percentage! This compares to our (AMCO’s) rate of 3.41%!
And importantly, in all of our false alarm cases, the main reason for these false alarms was the fact there was someone on site (like a cleaner) who wasn’t properly briefed on what to do when they activate the system (i.e. give the correct password).
So there you go – if you have one of our Alarm Monitoring Company (AMCO) alarm systems then you’ll not only have the best monitored security, you’ll also make sure you don’t annoy the police.
Maybe we should change our company slogan to “The only alarm company policeman love!”
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