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As an aside, it is official UK policy to NOT respond to reports of someone's house alarm going off. If you ring 999 they'll ask you if you can actually see some
by philbarr 12y ago
As an aside, it is official UK policy to NOT respond to reports of someone's house alarm going off. If you ring 999 they'll ask you if you can actually see someone in the house robbing things and if you can't, they won't send anyone out.
The reason is that too many house alarms go off by accident, they don't have the manpower to check them all.
- rickyc091 12y agoYep, I was just going to say. Right when I moved into a new apartment, I didn’t know the security code to the alarm so it went off for a good 20 minutes. You could hear the alarm on the street, but no one seemed to care or pay too much attention to it. It reminded me of this http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/opinion/bike-thief.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/opinion/bike-thief.html
- GFischer 12y agoHere in Uruguay, it's reasonably common to pay for private security, isn't it the case over there? Police does not respond to house alarms here either (there's one in my block that sounds every other day, it defeats the purpose of having an alarm).