Alarms

Boiler alarm

by msecadm4921

Alarms from a vacant property protection company are saving a Liverpool social housing provider an estimated £1 million by preventing the theft of boilers from its empty properties.

One Vision Housing estimates that since installing the SitexOrbis alarm solution in one property, boiler theft has fallen from at least two per week to none, equating to about £1m over four years. Theft attempts have fallen since the arrest of several intruders who broke into an empty property containing a SitexOrbis Videofied portable intruder alarm with a camera for visual verification. The camera was activated as soon as the intruders entered, transmitting a series of 10-second video images to SitexOrbis’ 24/7 BS5979 Category II accredited alarm receiving centre (ARC) in north-west England. A SitexOrbis operator alerted Merseyside Police who reviewed the video footages and were able to track the intruders down.

One Vision housing gas manager Eric Wignall said: “Following these arrests, the
word has obviously spread around the criminal network that we, in conjunction with the police and SitexOrbis, are actively fighting boiler theft. Before we installed the alarm solution we were facing in excess of two stolen boilers a week and now we’re at zero. This will lead to massive cost savings. If we had not installed the solution, for the next four years we would have had to put aside £1 million to cover the cost of stolen boilers.”

SitexOrbis and One Vision have previously worked together on boiler theft. In 2010 Merseyside Police arrested and charged two burglars in connection with breaking into two One Vision properties containing Videofied alarms. Eric Wignall added: “SitexOrbis proved to us in 2010 that their equipment can successfully tackle boiler theft. Unfortunately the theft attempts have since started up again and we have been losing over 100 boilers a year, which equates to millions of pounds. So we were more than willing to turn to SitexOrbis again. Given this latest success, my recommendation is to continue to add more SitexOrbis alarm solutions to more of our vacant properties.”

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