Stage 1 · Survey
Risk, insurer requirements and layout.
Our services, in detail
Four services, all surveyed before being quoted.
Program 01 · Graded to the risk
Intruder alarms
A system is graded to the risk rather than to a price point, because an insurer that specified a grade and got something lower may decline a claim. If you want police response we install and maintain to the standard the force requires and help you obtain a URN — and we will say plainly when a cheaper option forfeits that.
Stage 2 · Grade
Specified to the risk, not the budget.
Stage 3 · Install
To the certificated standard.
Stage 4 · URN
Applied for where police response is wanted.
Stage 1 · Purpose
What each camera is actually for.
Stage 2 · Coverage
Avoiding unnecessary overlook.
Stage 3 · Retention
Set to a period you can justify.
Stage 4 · Signage
And how to handle a request for footage.
Program 02 · You become a data controller
CCTV
Recording identifiable people is processing personal data, which makes you the controller. That means signage, a retention period you actually apply, answering subject access requests, and real care about cameras overlooking a neighbour or the street. We design to make those duties manageable, and we will tell you when a camera position creates a problem.
Program 03 · Escape routes come first
Access control and door entry
A locked door that cannot be opened from the inside during a fire is a worse problem than the one it solved. Access control has to work with the escape strategy and the fire alarm, not against it, and we design that in rather than retrofitting an override later.
Stage 1 · Who needs access
Where, and at what times.
Stage 2 · Egress
Checked against the fire strategy.
Stage 3 · Install
With fail-safe arrangements.
Stage 4 · Handover
Fobs issued and recorded.
Stage 1 · Service visit
At the required frequency.
Stage 2 · False alarms
Cause found, not reset and forgotten.
Stage 3 · Monitoring
Where the system is signalled.
Stage 4 · Records
Kept for the insurer and the police.
Program 04 · False alarms cost the URN
Maintenance and monitoring
Repeated false activations get a URN withdrawn, and then police response ends regardless of what you are paying for. Finding the cause — a pet, a draught, a failing detector — is the actual job, and it is why maintenance matters more than the installation it protects.
Thinking about an alarm or cameras?
A free site survey, with the police response and data protection positions explained before you buy.