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Article #5064Re: Home alarms hooked to police?
From: Steve Manes
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:16
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:16
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James Deibele (jamesd@techbook.com) wrote: : Now it's more and more common for homes to have burglar alarms, but all : of them that I have heard of are hooked up to a local alarm company. : The alarm company is responsible for responding to alarms and notifying : the police when appropriate. As sidenote, you'll find that in larger localities most alarm companies share the same commercial central alarm service. When I priced out alarm monitoring companies in Danbury I found prices from $14/month all the way up to $43.50/month (Westec). The cheaper outfits subscribe to a central station service. No one had a negative thing to say about the reliability or response time of shared central station monitoring, BTW. Personally, I much prefer the accountability of a commercial central station to one monitored by the police. First, you have to wonder what kind of cop would be removed from the street to watch a bunch of red lights in a backroom of the station house. -- Stephen Manes manes@magpie.nycenet.edu Manes and Associates/Commontech-NoHo New York, NY, USA =o&>o
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Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house,misc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!magpie!manes From: manes@magpie.nycenet.edu (Steve Manes) Subject: Re: Home alarms hooked to police? Organization: Manes and Associates, NYC Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:16:20 GMT Message-ID: <C0KBJB.5wA@magpie.nycenet.edu> Followup-To: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house,misc.misc X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <C0I5JI.Hr6@techbook.com> Lines: 23