Can an alarm system prevent my house being burgled?
Santa was asked the other day, is, can a burglar alarm, or does a burglar alarm actually prevent a burglary? And that’s what I’m going to be talking about in today’s video. The simple answer to that question is, no, it doesn’t, it can’t do. There’s no physical barrier with an alarm system.
It doesn’t lock your doors or your windows. It doesn’t prevent them from opening. Um, so you might ask, what’s the point of actually having a burglar alarm? Well, the point of having an alarm system is twofold. Firstly, it lets you know when there’s a problem, so you can take action accordingly.
Original systems just had the siren or the bell that went off, but these days, you either have a monitored system. So when it goes off, the monitoring centre calls you and says your alarm’s gone off, or you have a self monitored alarm, um, system where you either have a smartphone app or the system phones you on your mobile and lets you know that there’s a problem.
So that’s part one. It lets you know when there’s a problem, and then you can phone the police or pop home and see what the problem is. The second point of having an alarm system is it provides a massive deterrent. Tthere was a survey done a little while back from convicted, burglars in prison, and 81% of them said that they’re put off burglaring a house by the presence of an alarm system and that’s the vital point, or one of the vital points.
Burglars aren’t specifically after your house. They can get what they’re looking for in virtually every house. They’re after cash, cards, they’re after phones, iPads, tablets, games, consoles, small electrical tech items that they can sell easily, which they can get in every house.
So there’s no kind of truth in the myth that having an alarm system advertises to a burglar that you’ve got something worth stealing? No, it doesn’t, every house has got something worth stealing. So if you’re a burglar and you’ve got a choice of burglaring two houses, one with a window open, and a burglar alarm system, and one with a window open and without a burglar alarm system, which are you going to do?
Every self, respecting burglar is going to go for the one without the alarm system. Now, it could be that if you’ve got an alarm system and you’ve left a window open and next door hasn’t got an alarm system, but hasn’t left a window open, then you’re leaving yourself at risk.
Clearly, but all things being equal, a burglar alarm system is a huge deterrent, and is well worth having one hope that answers that question for you. And if you need anything more answered, give me a shout.
Santa was asked the other day, is, can a burglar alarm, or does a burglar alarm actually prevent a burglary? And that’s what I’m going to be talking about in today’s video. The simple answer to that question is, no, it doesn’t, it can’t do. There’s no physical barrier with an alarm system.
It doesn’t lock your doors or your windows. It doesn’t prevent them from opening. Um, so you might ask, what’s the point of actually having a burglar alarm? Well, the point of having an alarm system is twofold. Firstly, it lets you know when there’s a problem, so you can take action accordingly.
Original systems just had the siren or the bell that went off, but these days, you either have a monitored system. So when it goes off, the monitoring centre calls you and says your alarm’s gone off, or you have a self monitored alarm, um, system where you either have a smartphone app or the system phones you on your mobile and lets you know that there’s a problem.
So that’s part one. It lets you know when there’s a problem, and then you can phone the police or pop home and see what the problem is. The second point of having an alarm system is it provides a massive deterrent. Tthere was a survey done a little while back from convicted, burglars in prison, and 81% of them said that they’re put off burglaring a house by the presence of an alarm system and that’s the vital point, or one of the vital points.
Burglars aren’t specifically after your house. They can get what they’re looking for in virtually every house. They’re after cash, cards, they’re after phones, iPads, tablets, games, consoles, small electrical tech items that they can sell easily, which they can get in every house.
So there’s no kind of truth in the myth that having an alarm system advertises to a burglar that you’ve got something worth stealing? No, it doesn’t, every house has got something worth stealing. So if you’re a burglar and you’ve got a choice of burglaring two houses, one with a window open, and a burglar alarm system, and one with a window open and without a burglar alarm system, which are you going to do?
Every self, respecting burglar is going to go for the one without the alarm system. Now, it could be that if you’ve got an alarm system and you’ve left a window open and next door hasn’t got an alarm system, but hasn’t left a window open, then you’re leaving yourself at risk.
Clearly, but all things being equal, a burglar alarm system is a huge deterrent, and is well worth having one hope that answers that question for you. And if you need anything more answered, give me a shout.
