House Alarm - Were do i stand

[paul26982]

been going off all day over the road, loud as fk, now 11 o'clock, i have to little boys waking up, heads done in, they havnt been in all day and night either, surely i can do somthing about it if its going after 12, fking fuming

[SimonV8ster]

Phone the cops up, shouldn't still be going on.

Phone 999 and tell them you heard screaming from inside.

Go to bed.

[Gun]

Phone your local police station if they're still open, could be a break in.

[paul26982]

sick of the fking thing, pain in the bd arse

[GunShot (Wound)]

Get a ladder.....

And smash the fking thing off the fking wall.


Wasn't me officer... there's Pikeys round the corner...

Job done.

HTH.

ETA.

20 mins max for the alarm to sound...

Edited by GunShot (Wound) on Friday 17th July 23:09

[paul26982]

[quote=GunShot (Wound)]Get a ladder.....

And smash the fking thing off the fking wall.


Wasn't me officer... there's Pikeys round the corner...

Job done.

HTH.

ETA.

20 mins max for the alarm to sound...

Edited by GunShot (Wound) on Friday 17th July 23:09

[/quote]do they have to do somthing after 12 though, isnt there a disturbing the peace rule or somthing

[Stickers]

Had the same problem 2 weeks ago during mid-day to late afternoon - phoned the BiB & they said that they ONLY respond to business premisses & not residential homes........also, if I were to physically disable the alarm I'd be arrested for criminal damage - oddly enough, that one applies whether residential or not.

However, after 11pm I presume that they would be obliged to respond due to noise/nuisance during unsociable hours.

One suggestion would be to phone the BiB & report seeing a hooded stranger in the premesis, at the very least they would have to get off their fkin arse!

[Le Mans Visitor]

The police won't be able to stop the noise. however. contact your local Enviormental Health Dept, they have powers to disable nusance alarm systems.

[EDLT]

Le Mans Visitor said:

The police won't be able to stop the noise. however. contact your local Enviormental Health Dept, they have powers to disable nusance alarm systems.

What will he do for the next six months though?

[Galileo1]

as above. had the same problem and called E.H. two girls arrived, sympathetic & were really good, they called the BiB and 'advised' them that if they couldnt find the homeowner they would gain access by whatever means to silence it. Firm but Fair! Alarm was silenced once the police had located a 2nd keyholder. Hopefully its off now though for you.

[Le Mans Visitor]

EDLT said:

Le Mans Visitor said:

The police won't be able to stop the noise. however. contact your local Enviormental Health Dept, they have powers to disable nusance alarm systems.

What will he do for the next six months though?

Enviromental Health Departments are a 24hr service. they are here in Hampshire, I am an Alarm engineer and get called upon by them to disable nusence systems with the Police in attendance.

Edited by Le Mans Visitor on Saturday 18th July 00:05

[s3fella]

have you actually checked t see why it's going off, ie has there been a break in?

[branflakes]

Are you absolutely sure there's nobody home? A few years ago my house alarm kept going off at random, but because the house was well insulated it took three days (during which time nobody bothered to check why it kept going off) before I realised it was my alarm and not a neighbour's.

[Oldandslow]

It was your own alarm? Not even a hint of embarassment?

[Pickled Piper]

Check on your local authority website. There will often be a department that can come out immediately. They have the authority to enter the premises if no one is home and also to call out an electrician to deactivate the alarm. The bill goes to the owner of the alarm.

pp

[paul26982]

well they came back at 12.15 last night, i was fuming,

[plumAJP]

I am an envirnonmental health officer, it will be your local EH pollution control or noise control department within the council.

if they have an out of hours service like we have, they will come to yours house at anytime and listen. if they feel that the sound is intrusive and interferring with the enjoyment of your property ie reading a book at midday or trying to sleep (time of day is irrelevant) if it interferes with the use of your property and that means anything you do in your home, reading, tv, sleep, knitt etc at anytime of day then it is considered a statutory nuisance under the Environmental protection Act 1990 section 79/80.


the council will have to nip back the thier office to check their database for any previous contact from any occupier/owner there to see if they have a mobile or keyholder details. if they do then great, if not they will serve an abatement notice on the property there and then, addressed to the owner/occupier, giving them 1 hour to silence the audible alarm. after one hour, they will then have to contact an out of hour magistrate to sign a warrant for entry, call the police to say they are breaking in, call a council out of hour carpenter (for breaking door and securing property) and a out of hours council electrician to silence alarm (this will jsut be a simple disconect of wires and sounder, they shouldnt reset the alarm for fear of the problem reoccuring). once done a nice letter is left on the matt saying we have been in and silenced alarm. it may involve us changing the door locks to front door so we would have to leave a note on the front door to say ring 114140148014801 number to get your keys.( imagine that on your retrun home from hols) pi$$sed.

it sounds like a lot to do but i when i do these, i get it all done and dusted in 2 hours.

i just hope your local authority have an out of hours service,

if not get the ladders out and snip the wires to the sounder, sometimes if a property is very secure and would result in major damage to front door, we remove the alarm box cover and stuff a sock in there to muffle the sound. if its an internal fire alarm then its a different story. it sometimes pays to ring the alarm company if they advertise on the alarm box, they do sometimes send an engineer out.

Edited by plumAJP on Saturday 18th July 19:39

[Simpo Two]

Domestic burglar alarm are nothing but a bloody nuisance. Car alarms can only go off for a few minutes - so why do house alarms go on for hours?

plumAJP said:

I am an envirnonmental health officer, it will be your local EH pollution control or noise control department within the council.

A burglar alarm going off is (supposed to be) indicative that some light-fingered Johnny is pilfering the contents, ie involved in theft which I believe to be a criminal offence. So why can't Plod be arsed to do anything, what with them supposed to be involved with catching criminals etc?

[AndrewTait]

Slightly off topic, but a friends son got beaten up last Thursday afternoon, by about 3 or four similarly aged lads, just outside their house. His mum saw what was happening, and called the police on 999.

The police said they would call around when they could, and by 9pm still hadn't arrived. She phoned them again on the non-emergency number, and was told that someone would be in touch on Friday. They were, to say they could not make it before 10.30 on Sunday!

[paul26982]

AndrewTait said:

Slightly off topic, but a friends son got beaten up last Thursday afternoon, by about 3 or four similarly aged lads, just outside their house. His mum saw what was happening, and called the police on 999.

The police said they would call around when they could, and by 9pm still hadn't arrived. She phoned them again on the non-emergency number, and was told that someone would be in touch on Friday. They were, to say they could not make it before 10.30 on Sunday!

because the rozza's are lazy bds