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- 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
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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.
-
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- Stephen Manes manes@magpie.nycenet.edu
- Manes and Associates/Commontech-NoHo New York, NY, USA =o&>o
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