The research evidence on security alarms

[Blooda]

On 08/03/2025 at 14:15, Adsibob said:

Quotes I’m getting for installation of an insurance approved alarm are crazy. Cheapest quote I’ve got is £1250 installation plus £30 a month for monitoring. Some quotes are twice or even 2.5 times that.

 

 There is only a £200 a year saving on insurance on getting an insurance approved alarm. Some insurance comparison websites even quote more if you have an alarm - very odd.

You will have to prove it's serviced anually as well.

 

  

[ToughButterCup]

16 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

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The fact that our prisons are better than Butlins

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M6 North bound : Lancaster, just short of Lancaster North junction (34), 21:00 and later any day on a warm evening ..... The Prison staff are mostly at home

 

You can hear from the Northbound carriageway,  the inmates - many of them , not just one or two -  banging on the windows with metal plates, screaming, crying  - over the motorway noise.  Riding my bike home on the track next to the prison after a late teaching session : I never got used to the noise - and won't forget it either. No Butlins methinks.

[SteamyTea]

13 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

No Butlins methinks

I lived a few hundred metres from Aylesbury Prison in the 1980s.  IRA terrorists were kept there.

Now it is a higher security places for lifers, but the younger ones (under 21 I think).

Horrible place.