The new Alarm Monitoring Company office is in the middle of Soho, which gives will allow us to manage all our Central London operations.

This is of course great news for our London burglar alarm customers – and nice for our London-based staff, who can now enjoy the joys of Soho!

Of course, the first thing we did was install one of our *AWESOME* monitored alarm systems – to ensure the staff and operations are kept safe.  See below! (the entry door and a photo of the *speaker microphone unit* which allows us to challenge burglars verbally).

Alarm Monitoring Company open new Central London Office! is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

We’re mainly looking to fill three key roles:

- Operations manager: we’re looking for experienced operations managers who can help us schedule our daily alarm engineer work rosters.  As a company that operates around the UK, but managed centrally, we require someone who is highly organised and with strong resource allocation skills who can help organise daily work rosters.  This job is a York / Easingwold based role, working in our company HQ.

- Alarm engineers: we’re looking for individuals who have good electronic problem solving skills and who are self-motivated, to join our South of England team.  The ideal candidate doesn’t necessarily have to have a security background, however we’re always keen that our engineers have a good background in electronics / engineering, and are good at problem-solving – as problem solving is  key when it comes delivering great service for our clients.  The perfect candidate for this role would ideally be based around Milton Keynes or the North of London.

- Marketing interns: this is a minor role, but equally important!  If you live around the York area, and have just left university / or are even still at university, then we’re looking for people to join our HQ staff and help run some of our marketing activities – spreading the good word about AMCO!

If you fit one of these roles we’d love to hear from you.  Please send all CVs to: info@alarm-monitoring.co.uk And if you know anyone who fits the bill, then drop us a line too!

We’re recruiting: Operations Manager, Alarm Engineers and Marketing support is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

The reason for most of the calls is down to ADT’s expensive service.  Not only are people getting fed up with the high monthly monitoring costs, but also the high call out costs they often charge customers.

Once ADT customers talk to our team, they generally discover that not only can we provide services much cheaper, but we also provide much better security – as we provide “interactive monitoring” meaning that when an alarm is activated we can listen and talk into a property within seconds.

Anyway, if you’re an ADT customer and you’re not so happy with their service, do drop us a line or email and we’ll happily chat to you.

And if you haven’t already, do have a look around our site to check out how our systems work!

“Hello, I’m unhappy with ADT. Can you help me?” is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

Seconds later, our remote monitoring station was listening in and verbally challenging the burglars via a speaker microphone unit in the shop. Identifying that a burglary was in progress, our monitoring station called the police immediately, who – in turn – react speedily, sending a 5 police response vehicles and a helicopter to hunt down the suspects, resulting in successful arrests.

So – good job all round.

AMCO interactive monitored alarm + immediate police response = bye bye burglars!

AMCO monitored alarm saves the day (again!) for betting shop is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

So, given we’re a competitor of theirs, what are our arguments for why AMCO alarm monitoring is far better than ADT’s?  Well here’s some of our arguments why AMCO is better than ADT, and a comparison or systems:

- We provide “interactive alarm monitoring” as standard, rather than ADT’s standard  “call-back monitoring”.  This means our alarm systems are much more secure – as we can immediately listen-in and talk into the house when the alarm is triggered, unlike the “call-back” systems which require telephone verification.

- We don’t have stupidly high call out charges, unlike ADT who, from the customers we speak to, say that they’re constantly annoyed at how much they have to pay when their alarm needs seeing to.

- We don’t insist our customers sign up to long 3 year contracts and charge much less for our monitoring services.

- And finally, generally our staff are much nicer, and don’t go in for all the hard-sell tactics that companies like ADT go in for ; – )

So there you go.  Why we’re better than ADT.  And if you want more info on our systems, check out: www.alarm-monitoring.co.uk

Why ADT alarm monitoring service is not very good is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

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.

If you’d like to check out more, visit our about monitored alarms page.

Small business alarm success! is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

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 ; – )

CCTV system prices CUT by over £200! is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

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.

Another alarm monitoring success in North London! is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

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!

Alarm monitoring Co launches £1000 reward is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.

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!”

Police call outs to false alarm rate statistics – UK average vs AMCO average is a post from: The Alarm Monitoring Company, specialist in monitored alarms.